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Michigan referee's death prompts calls for tougher laws

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[Attacks on Michigan referees so alarmed Jim Dworman, an accomplished lawyer who also officiates high school basketball and football games, that he contacted his lawmaker two years ago about toughening penalties for such actions.


"People just weren't that interested," he said.


Everything changed with a single punch in a men's recreational soccer game near Detroit last summer. ]

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