A reader has alerted me that just a few days before the Detroit ABC news affiliate ran its story concerning possible mortgage and bank fraud by Michigan Justice Diane Hathaway, the Michigan Association for Justice (the trial lawyers) presented her with the “Judicial Integrity Award.” Hathaway was endorsed by the same organization in 2008, the year she defeated an incumbent, conservative Chief Justice Cliff Taylor, with the help of a misleading ad that accused him of sleeping during oral argument.