Ann Arbor's Ave Maria School of Law gets OK to move to Florida. ... Buh-bye!

[Bozita]

http://www.freep.com/article/20090221/NEWS06/90221032

Ann Arbor's Ave Maria School of Law gets OK to move to Florida
ASSOCIATED PRESS • FEBRUARY 21, 2009


ANN ARBOR — The Ave Maria School of Law says it has received approval from the American Bar Association to relocate from Michigan to southwest Florida.

The school said in a statement this week that it will retain full accreditation as it relocates. Ave Maria University's board of governors voted in 2007 to move the law school from Michigan.

Law school classes are to start in August in Florida.

Thomas S. Monaghan, founder of Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza Inc., pledged funding to construct Ave Maria University. The Catholic school is located between Naples and Immokalee. The former owner of the Detroit Tigers initially intended to build a permanent campus for Ave Maria in Michigan, but he couldn't secure the necessary rezoning rights.

[tekisui]

1. Michigan.

The state needs help. Too bad they couldn't stay.

[David Dunham]

2. I agree. Michigan should welcome even right-wing law schools.

[USA_1]

3. Typical Capitalists

As a non profit institution, the school made millions in profits all of which were tax free under Michigan's laws. Now it decides to abandon the state that enabled it to profit.

How convenient that it can pocket all this money and laugh all the way to the bank.

If I was governor, I would, ''OK, go to Florida. But here is a tax bill for all those profits you made at our expense''.

[JVS]

4. This is not surprising. Why would they keep the law school in MI now that they have built their FL..

campus.

[CatholicEdHead]

5. The campus is part of the big Ave Maria community

which is just a big realestate bubble to make money for Monaghan. The Ave Maria empire is just a big way to make money for him.

[Dawgs]

6. My uncle lives in that community.

That place is scary.

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Ave Maria is just Tom Monaghan's business venture

he also has a rich person's club he controls who gets in and out of. It is sad so many people fell for his hollow sales pitch. Ave Maria is very cult-ish.

[USA_1]

7. Tax Exempt Land

Businesses build their enterprises on church property in order to avoid paying taxes due to tax exemptions allowed under the Internal Revenue Code.

While you and I have to pay taxes on our income, the wealthy elites pocket their money and laugh all the way to the bank. It is time to end tax exemptions for churches.