Protection request against anti-gay lawyer dropped
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The University of Michigan's student government president has dropped a request for a personal protection order against a state lawyer who attacked him on an anti-gay blog.
An official at the Washtenaw County Circuit Court in Ann Arbor says 21-year-old Chris Armstrong's lawyer filed a motion to drop the matter Monday, hours before a court hearing was scheduled.
Armstrong had requested the order earlier this month against assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell. He claimed the 30-year-old prosecutor harassed him over a five-month period.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Shirvell started a blog in April that criticized Armstrong as a racist with a "radical homosexual agenda."
Shirvell remains on personal leave from his job. His lawyer, Philip Thomas, said Monday that Shirvell and Armstrong have had no contact for weeks.