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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 355 › Williams v. Simons
Williams v. Simons, 355 U.S. 49 (1957)
Williams v. Simons
No. 74, Misc.
A Federal District Court issued a temporary restraining order restraining the Governor and other officials of Michigan from continuing with proceedings under state law for the removal of certain municipal officers for alleged misfeasance in office. Without passing on the merits of the complaint or a motion to dismiss it, a three-judge District Court, convened to consider the case, continued the temporary restraining order in effect for several months, pending determination of criminal proceedings against the same municipal officers. The Governor and Attorney General filed a motion in this Court for leave to file a petition for writ of mandamus or for writs of prohibition and mandamus directed against the members of the three-judge District Court to compel them to decide the motion for a preliminary injunction and the motion to dismiss, or to refrain from proceeding further in the cause and to vacate the temporary restraining order. This Court issued an order to the members of the District Court to show cause why a writ of mandamus or prohibition should not issue. The District Court, on motion of one of the complainants in the proceeding before it, then vacated its temporary restraining order and dismissed the complaint.
Held: it appearing that the cause has become moot, the rule to show cause is discharged, and the motion is denied.
ON MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS
OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, PROHIBITION AND MANDAMUS
It appearing that this case has become moot, the rule to show cause is discharged, and the motion for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus or, in the alternative, prohibition and mandamus, is denied.
Memorandum by MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, in which MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN joins.
In view of the disposition the Court makes of this unusual litigation, it seems desirable to set forth the facts.
(1) Inquiry Into Municipal Officers' Wrongdoing.
Aug. 1956 -- The Attorney General of Michigan and the Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Michigan, filed with the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial Circuit for Wayne County an application for a judicial investigation of criminal offenses and unlawful practices in the City of Ecorse and other governmental units in Wayne County. In re Kavanagh, Misc. No. 83258.
That court entered an order appointing Theodore R. Bohn, Circuit Judge, to conduct an inquiry pursuant to Mich.Comp.Laws, 1948, §§ 767.3 and 767.4, as amended by Mich.Pub.Acts 1949, No. 311, Mich.Pub.Acts 1951, No. 276. [Footnote 1]
Sept. 1956 -- Inquiry conducted by Judge Bohn pursuant to §§ 767.3 and 767.4.
Oct. 17, 1956 -- Warrant signed by Judge Bohn for the arrest of William Voisine, mayor of the City of Ecorse, and Albert Buday and Francis Labadie, members of the city council of Ecorse. The warrant recites that there is probable cause to believe that Voisine, Buday, Labadie, and others have conspired to obstruct justice by knowingly permitting illegal gambling to flourish in return for bribes and gratuities. A separate warrant issued, evidently on October 22d, charging Elmer Korn, also a member of the city council, with accepting bribes.
Oct. 23, 1956 -- Judge Bohn signed and transmitted to G. Mennen Williams, Governor of Michigan, findings of probable cause to believe Voisine, Labadie, and Buday guilty of misfeasance in office, and of other offenses constituting grounds for removal, and recommended that the Governor, the official empowered to do so, take steps to remove them from office. Similar findings were transmitted to the Governor concerning Elmer Korn.
(2) Criminal Proceedings.
Nov. 1956 -- Preliminary examination held by Justice of the Peace, and accused officers bound over for trial in the Circuit Court on criminal charges.
Dec. 21, 1956 -- Information filed in the Circuit Court for Wayne County against Voisine, Buday, Labadie, and others, by the Attorney General, charging a conspiracy to obstruct justice by knowingly permitting illegal gambling in return for bribes and gratuities. Arraignment set for January 15, 1967. People v. Voisine, No. 34092.
Jan. 11, 1957 -- Information filed against Korn.
-- Motions to quash filed by Voisine and Labadie.
(3) Removal Proceedings.
Governor initiated removal proceedings against accused officers, pursuant to constitutional and statutory authorization. Mich.Const., Art. IX, § 8; Mich.Comp.Laws, 1948, § 767.4, as amended by Mich.Pub.Acts 1949, No. 311, Mich.Pub.Acts 1951, No. 276; Mich.Comp.Laws, 1948, § 168.327, as added by Mich.Pub.Acts 1954, No. 116, c. XV; Mich.Comp.Laws, 1948, §§ 201.7, 201.10. [Footnote 2]
Oct. 25, 1956 -- Executive order issued by Governor Williams, on the basis of the findings of Judge Bohn, directing the Attorney General to inquire into the charges made against Korn, and appointing John W. Conlin, Probate Judge, to conduct hearings and take testimony produced before him.
-- Executive order issued by Governor directing the Attorney General and Judge Conlin to conduct similar proceedings against Voisine, Labadie, and Buday.
Nov. 1 or 2, 1956 -- Notice of removal proceedings was served on Voisine, Labadie, and Buday, and hearing set for November 13th.
-- Korn also served with notice of the removal proceedings.
Nov. 13, 1956 -- Removal proceedings continued to November 21st.
Nov. 21, 1956 -- Accused officers filed motions to dismiss the proceedings, and objected to hearing on removal charges before trial in the criminal proceedings.
Removal proceedings continued to January 7th, 1957, and then to January 9th.
Jan. 9, 1957 -- Order issued by Judge Conlin the effect of which, according to accused officers, was to deny their various motions.
(4) Intervention by United States District Court.
Jan. 14, 1957 -- Complaint filed by Voisine, Labadie, Buday, and Korn in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, naming as defendants Judge Conlin, Governor Williams, Judge Bohn, and Attorney General Kavanagh, and alleging that the statute conferring removal power on the Governor, and the statutes under which Judge Bohn acted, violate the complainants' rights under the Federal Constitution. The complaint prays: that a temporary restraining order issue to prevent defendants from continuing with the removal proceedings until other matters of relief prayed for can be determined; that a three-judge District Court be organized under 28 U.S.C. § 2284, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2281, to issue a preliminary injunction; that, on final hearing, the removal proceedings be declared unconstitutional and void, and that a permanent injunction issue against defendants' continuing the proceedings; that the warrant and information underlying the criminal action be determined
to have arisen out of unconstitutional proceedings. Voisine v. Conlin, Civ. No. 16638.
Complainants also filed a notice of motion for a preliminary injunction and for the formation of a three-judge District Court, and prayed for a temporary restraining order to issue without notice.
Temporary restraining order issued without notice by District Judge Levin, restraining defendants from continuing with removal proceedings. See 28 U.S.C. § 2284(3) and Fed.Rules Civ.Proc. rule 65.
Jan. 15, 1957 -- Announcement of organization of three-judge District Court, and hearing set for January 29th. Defendants agreed that temporary restraining order should remain in effect until matter disposed of by three-judge court.
Jan. 21, 1957 -- Defendants filed answer to complaint, denying jurisdiction of the court on the grounds, among others, that complainants had failed to exhaust their state remedies, and that the suit was in substance one to enjoin the State of Michigan from exercising its sovereign powers.
Defendants filed motion to dismiss on similar grounds.
Jan. 29, 1957 -- Hearing held before three-judge District Court on motions of complainants and defendants.
Feb. 1, 1957 -- District Court entered amended order holding in abeyance determination of the questions submitted until the termination of complainants' criminal trials or until further order of court, and continuing in force the temporary restraining order. The court recited as grounds for its action that complainants may forthwith be tried in the criminal proceedings, and the constitutional questions presented may thereby become moot, and that complainants may be prejudiced in the criminal proceedings
by the investigation in the removal proceedings. Chief Judge Lederle, District Judge, dissented on the ground that the case was ripe for decision.
Feb. 28, 1957 -- The Governor and Attorney General filed a motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order or to pass on defendants' motion to dismiss, on the ground that the court had no authority to refuse to decide the motion and to continue the temporary restraining order.
Mar. 8, 1957 -- Proceedings on the motion to dissolve.
Mar. 11, 1957 -- Voisine filed an answer to the motion to dissolve.
Apr. 9, 1957 -- The court entered an order denying the motion to dissolve on the ground that, deeming it a motion for a rehearing, it presented no considerations that were not before the court when it entered its amended order of February 1st. Chief Judge Lederle dissented.
(5) Proceedings in This Court for Review of District Court's Action.
July 3, 1957 -- The Governor and Attorney General filed in this Court a motion for leave to file a petition for writ of mandamus or for writs of prohibition and mandamus directed against the members of the three-judge District Court to compel them to decide the motion for a preliminary injunction and the motion to dismiss, or to refrain from proceeding further in the cause and to vacate the temporary restraining order.
Petitioners asserted, among other grounds for the issuance of the writs, that, in a case of great public importance, the District Court had, for an unreasonable time, failed to perform its judicial function by granting or denying the motions before it, while continuing in effect the temporary restraining order.
Oct. 24 or 25, 1957 -- Counsel for Voisine filed in the District Court a motion to dismiss the complaint, noticed for hearing on November 4th. The Attorney General received a copy of this motion, and, on October 29th, a copy of a similar motion by Labadie, also noticed for hearing on November 4th.
Oct. 28, 1957 -- This Court issued an order to the members of the District Court to show cause on or before November 12th why a writ of mandamus or prohibition should not issue. This order was sent to the respondents the same day, Monday, October 28th.
Oct. 29, 1957 -- The next day, the District Court entered an order, on the motion of Voisine and with the concurrence of the other complainants, vacating the temporary restraining order and dismissing the complaint. The Attorney General, we are advised, was not given notice that the District Court would act on the motion to dismiss, or given an opportunity to present objections.
Oct. 31, 1957 -- Defendants filed with the District Court an answer to the motion to dismiss, asserting that the court should refrain from acting on the motion until it had filed a return to this Court's order of October 28th to show cause.
Nov. 4, 1957 -- The District Court advised this Court of the order of dismissal of October 29th, and expressed its view that, since the issues presented by the case are moot, this Court should vacate its order to show cause.
Nov. 8, 1957 -- The Attorney General of Michigan, protesting against the District Court's action, requested a determination of the issues presented in spite of the District Court's order dismissing the complaint.
From the foregoing, it appears that, as a result of the District Court's refusal to pass on the questions presented
by the complainants' motion for a preliminary injunction and the defendants' motion to dismiss, together with the court's continuance of the temporary restraining order, the Governor of Michigan and subordinate state officials designated by him were prevented for almost nine months from exercising powers claimed to be conferred upon them by Michigan law to remove municipal officers guilty of misconduct. The motion for leave to file a petition for mandamus or prohibition was filed in this Court at the end of the 1956 Term, and could not be considered until the commencement of the new Term. Immediately after the Court considered the motion and issued its order to show cause on the basis of a claim that challenged the validity of the actions taken by the District Court, that court dismissed the complaint, and thereby derailed, as in effect it has asserted, consideration on the merits of the issues presented by the order to show cause. Putting to one side the validity or propriety of the District Court's action in relation to the order of October 28th, and accepting the dismissal as accomplished, we must deny the petition for mandamus or prohibition. By vacating the temporary restraining order and dismissing the complaint, the District Court has brought to pass one alternative of the order petitioners would have this Court issue, thus rendering the petition for all practical purposes moot. But, although the past cannot be recalled and the physical entries in the records expunged, the legal significance and implications of this case are to be deemed expunged as though the restraints imposed by the District Court had never been ordered.
[Footnote 1]
Section 767.3 authorizes a single judge to conduct an inquiry into alleged illegal practices. Section 767.4 provides that, if the judge is satisfied that an offense has been committed and that there is probable cause to believe a person guilty thereof, he may cause his apprehension on proper process. It further provides that, if the judge has probable cause to believe that any public officer removable by law has been guilty of misfeasance or malfeasance in office, he shall make findings to this effect and serve them upon the public official having jurisdiction to remove the accused officer.
Section 767.4 provides that findings of probable cause transmitted to the Governor by a judge who has conducted an investigation under § 767.3 shall be a sufficient complaint as a basis for initiation of removal proceedings. Section 168.327 authorizes the Governor to remove an elected municipal officer when satisfied by sufficient evidence submitted to him in the manner prescribed by law that the officer is guilty of misconduct. Sections 201.7 and 201.10 authorize the Governor to direct the Attorney General to inquire into the charges and to present testimony and examine witnesses before a probate judge appointed by the Governor for such purpose. The probate judge is to certify a transcript of the testimony produced before him by the Attorney General and the accused officer, and deliver it to the Attorney General for transmittal to the Governor.
Memorandum by MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS.
This Court is empowered by the Constitution to decide cases and controversies. U.S.Const., Art. III, § 2. A cause that has become moot is not a case or controversy
in the constitutional sense. Amalgamated Assn. of Street, Electric Ry. & Motor Coach Employees v. Wisconsin Board, 340 U. S. 416, 340 U. S. 418. We cannot underscore this principle too heavily. We have no business in giving any expression of views on the merits, even in squinting one way or another. That is why the Court properly restricts its action to the order entered this day.


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The First Vatican Council (Latin: Concilium Vaticanum Primum) was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868. This twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the Council of Trent, opened on 8 December 1869 and adjourned on 20 October 1870. The Council was convoked to deal with the contemporary problems of the rising influence of rationalism, liberalism, and materialism.
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The Decrees of the Vatican Council, ed. Vincent McNabb (1907)
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The Vatican Council from its Opening to its Prorogation [1] (1870)
Postulatum of the Bishops for the Definition of the Infallibility (1869)
Letter of Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli to the Nuncio at Paris (1870)
Pastoral of the German Bishops Assembled at Fulda (1870)
"Vatican Council, The," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Vatican Council," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
The Centenary of Saint Peter and the General Council by Henry Edward Manning (1867)
The Œcumenical Council and the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff by Henry Edward Manning (1869)
The Pope and the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1869)
The Year of Preparation for the Vatican Council by Herbert Vaughan [2] (1869)
Letters from Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger [3] (1870)
The Vatican Council and Its Definitions by Henry Edward Manning (1870)
The True and the False Infallibility of the Popes by Josef Fessler (1871), translated by Ambrose St. John (1875)
The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance by William Ewart Gladstone (1874)
Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation Unravelled by William Bernard Ullathorne (1875)
Submission to a Divine Teacher Neither Disloyalty nor the Surrender of Mental and Moral Freedom by Herbert Vaughan (1875)
The True Story of the Vatican Council by Henry Edward Manning (1877)
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An Inside View of the Vatican Council by Peter Richard Kenrick [4] (1871)
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Palazzo Nasi si trova in piazza dei Mozzi 4 a Firenze.

Storia
Anticamente in questa zona si trovavano alcuni piccoli palazzi di varie famiglie (Benci, Bachi, Bardi e Nasi), che sfruttavano la vicinanza con il ponte alle Grazie. Questi edifici vennero acquistati da Nasi a più riprese tra il 1460 e il 1469, per unirli in un unico palazzo.

Secondo Giorgio Vasari il progetto venne iniziato nei primi decenni del Cinquecento da Baccio d'Agnolo e terminato da suo figlio Domenico, con l'inserimento di un terrazzino. Altre fonti citano invece un altro architetto responsabile del progetto, Filippo Baglioni, che pure era figlio di Baccio.

Il 24 ottobre 1529 durante l'assedio di Firenze, con il quale i Medici volevano reinstaurare il loro dominio dopo l'espulsione, trovarono rifugio ospitale in questo palazzo i religiosi dell'Ordine di Santa Brigida, fuggiti dal loro convento del Paradiso al Bandino, (dove nacque suor Domenica del Paradiso), convento che accoglieva nelle sue mura monaci e monache, divisi da muri separatori, soppresso per ragioni di moralità nel XVII secolo.

Appartenevano ai Nasi anche due palazzi adiacenti verso il fiume che nel 1522 furono venduti ai Del Nero e dove oggi sorge appunto il palazzo Torrigiani del Nero. Forse il Vasari si confuse con questo palazzo che in effetti risulta opera di Domenico di Baccio d'Agnolo.

Tra Cinque e Seicento il palazzo venne ristrutturato forse da Alfonso Parigi il vecchio, e in quell'occasione venne decorata la facciata con preziosi graffiti che ancora oggi caratterizzano il palazzo. Anche il cortile e gli ambienti interni vennero ammodernati.

In seguito fu acquistato dal Marchese Torrigiani, già possessore dell'attiguo palazzo Del Nero. Nel corso dell'Ottocento il palazzo venne sopraelevato di un piano e fu costruito un mezzanino tra pian terreno e primo piano sul lato del cortile.

Architettura

La facciata presenta i canonici tre piani, con un corpo più tardo aggiunto al di sopra della facciata oltre il tetto spiovente. Gli elementi architettonici sono tipici dei palazzi fiorentini post-rinascimentali, con un ampio portale sormontato da un balcone, finestre inginocchiate al pian terreno e due file di finestre, in questo caso quattro a piano, evidenziate da una cornice marcapiano: al piano nobile con timpano ad arco; al piano superiore con architrave sporgente. Anticamente la facciata possedeva cinque finestre per piano e il portale era così posto al centro, ma il nuovo assetto fu dovuto ad una riduzione in seguito alla costruzione del palazzo attiguo.

Mascheroni e altre figure di ispirazione buontalentiana completano con i graffiti la decorazione della facciata.

Il cortile interno ha un portico con arcate oggi tamponate, sopra le quali si aprono finestre simili a quelle della facciata.

Al piano nobile sopravvivono alcune stanze con pregevoli decorazioni sette-ottocentesche, con affreschi di motivi floreali e vegetali, scene allegoriche e mitologiche sui soffitti, putti e un interessante ciclo delleStagioni, con raffigurazioni a monocromo di putti impegnati nelle varie attività agricole di ciascun periodo dell'anno. In una stanza al secondo piano sono presenti affreschi in trompe-l'œil con vedute dell'Arno rese con particolari accorgimenti prospettici e incorniciate da finte architetture. Un altro ambiente doveva essere una sala da musica come suggeriscono due figure con strumenti musicali sul soffitto.

Una targa sulla facciata datata 1871 ricorda il marchese Carlo Torrigiani, fondatore della scuola di San Niccolò e sostenitore di altri istituti.

Galleria d'immagini

Bibliografia
Francesco Lumachi Firenze - Nuova guida illustrata storica-artistica-aneddotica della città e dintorni, Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 1929
Sandra Carlini, Lara Mercanti, Giovanni Straffi, I Palazzi parte seconda. Arte e storia degli edifici civili di Firenze, Alinea, Firenze 2004.

Altri progetti

Nasi

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New route to C-glycoside creation overcomes earlier drawbacks
By Simon Hadlington2006-03-08T12:54:00+00:00
One-pot process for creating C-glycosides could help prepare robust analogues of naturally occurring carbohydrates.
A one-pot process for creating C-glycosides could help prepare robust analogues of naturally occurring carbohydrates, report chemists who developed the process. The technique could ultimately be used to make carbohydrate derivatives more widely available for use in applications from drugs to biosensors.
Naturally occurring sugar molecules are linked by an O-acetal bond, which is highly susceptible to hydrolysis. A more stable linkage would be to replace acetal oxygen with a carbon group. But conventional methods of doing this require complex, multi-step chemistry in which exposed hydroxyl groups on the sugar ring need to be capped by protecting groups, and then restored at the end of the process.
Now, groups led by Richard Taylor at the University of York, UK, and Richard Franck at Hunter College, US, have devised a sulfur-based route to C-glycoside creation. Taylor's group has extended the procedure to develop a one-pot process that does not require protection of OH groups.
The UK researchers reacted 2-deoxy-D-ribose, which has three OH groups, with a sulfonyl Wittig reagent, which specifically attacks only the anomeric carbon of the sugar, replacing its OH with a CH2SO2R group. This sulfone is then subjected to the Ramberg-B?cklund reaction, in which it is exposed to a base and a halogenating agent, resulting in the sulfone group being replaced by a double-bonded carbon to create the C-glycoside.
Paul Murphy from University College Dublin, Ireland, is interested in the synthesis of bioactive carbohydrate derivatives. 'This approach is very attractive because one can envisage the synthesis of a wide variety of novel C-glycoconjugates of biological relevance without the need to manipulate protecting groups, which can cause difficulties,' Murphy told Chemistry World.
Simon Hadlington
R J K Taylor et al., 2006, Carbohydrate Res. (in press)


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Restaurant of love regained by Ito Ogawa
I'm not quite sure how I stumbled upon Restaurant of love regained… The novel's title made me think of those feel-good books that have overtaken book stores of late, where a young woman goes through a breakup with her boyfriend who she comes to realise was never « the one », moves to a new city or country or changes jobs, opens up a sweet shop or a restaurant or a bakery and then finds new love. These clichés I had in mind prevented me from reading Restaurant of love regained earlier, as I don't really enjoy that kind of literature that doesn't challenge me intellectually at all.
However, if I had followed my instincts and avoided the book entirely, I would have missed out on a refreshing and poetic piece of writing! The saying says that you mustn't judge a book by its cover, but I think it would be useful to remember that you shouldn't make a snap judgement based on a title either.
My opinion on Restaurant of love regained
The basic story arc follows the same pattern as the one I imagined: Rinco, a young Japanese woman, comes home after an argument with her Indian boyfriend to find her flat completely empty and all of their cash savings vanished. Rinco uses the loose change in her pocket to take a coach back to her childhood village and move back in with her mother who she hasn't seen in 10 years. She settles in and opens up a restaurant in order to start a new life there.
In Restaurant of love regained, the reader discovers – happily but unsurprisingly – a lot of detailed descriptions of food being prepared and the restaurant being decorated. Rinco prefers to use fresh, seasonal and local produce in her cooking and always chooses top quality ingredients when cooking delicious meals for her customers. The (very) long processes required to cook the different dishes of her Japanese, French or Indian cuisine give the reader access to the quiet comfort that comes from a simmering pot of something or other, or the smell of slowly brewing tea. The main character puts her heart and soul into her work, and her passion for cooking is matched only by the fluidity of the author's writing.
I'm glad I read Restaurant of love regained, as it helped me think about the ethical issues of eating meat. Rinco includes meat in her dishes, but she has an almost spiritual respect for the animals that are sacrificed for the meals she prepares. She watches over and even takes part in the killing of the animals to prevent any suffering, and makes sure to cook every part of each animal so as to avoid waste. This makes up a surprising part of the story and is sometimes difficult to read.
Emotions and cooking smells mingle beautifully in this novel, and the different steps of the story come one after the other like the courses in the luxury meals Rinco prepares. The "love regained" in the title is not necessarily romantic, the ending is not necessarily happy, and food doesn't fix everyone's problems despite all of Rinco's best efforts.
Still, in my opinion, Restaurant of love regained also has a few faults. I was quite put out by Rinco's initial reaction to her breakup that I couldn't help finding a little over the top, especially since that theme was almost completely forgotten in the rest of the novel. I thought that it would be a major part of the storyline, but I get the impression that it was just a pretext in order to send the main character back to her hometown. Also, although I enjoyed reading Rinco's customers' joyful reactions when eating her food, I couldn't really believe in all of the positive effects that her dishes supposedly had on their future lives and decisions.
Those two downsides permitting, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! I highly recommend it to people who like good cooking and realistic, bittersweet stories.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
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" Our new name reflects that, as the peak body, we are here for people of all ages, living with all forms of dementia, their families and carers. "
We are proud to announce that we have officially changed our name to Dementia Australia. With more than 100 types of dementia – Alzheimer's disease being one – our new name reflects that, as the peak body, we are here for people of all ages, living with all forms of dementia, their families and carers.
To coincide with the name change, Alzheimer's Australia state and territory bodies have joined together to become one single organisation.
From a grassroots community of passionate carers around Australia, we have evolved into the leading organisation providing a voice for people impacted by dementia.
Over the next few months we will be rolling out our new, national Dementia Australia structure, but at all times, the individuals we are here to serve will remain paramount. We will be keeping our local teams and building on our invaluable community relationships. Dementia Australia – in its new form – will be a more agile and responsive entity, while seamlessly and sustainably continuing to deliver crucial support services tailored to local needs.
Behind every decision we make, every change we make and every person we work with or support, every process we develop or program we introduce – our purpose will remain solidly that we are here to empower and enable people of all ages, living with all forms of dementia, their families and carers.
Check out this video which gives a great overview of our organisation's achievements to date, and a look to the future.
This article says that Dementia Australia will be 'a more agile and responsive entity' than Alzheimer's Australia. It also says that 'unification' will 'strengthen our capacity for advocacy', and that Dementia Australia will be 'bigger, stronger and bolder'. Larger organisations are not necessarily more forceful advocates than smaller ones. So it would be good to have an explanation of just how Dementia Australia plans to become better at advocacy.
This article says that Dementia Australia will be 'a more agile and responsive entity' than Alzheimer's Australia. It also says that unification will 'strengthen our capacity for advocacy', and that Dementia Australia will be 'bigger, stronger and bolder'. Larger organisations are not necessarily more forceful advocates than smaller ones. So it would be good to have an explanation of just how Dementia Australia plans to become better at advocacy.
A good move to improving public awareness of the existence and impact of dementia in our community. Hopefully it will strengthen and improve the support provided to carers, who carry a heavy and frustrating burden.