Wayne County Circuit Judge Brian Sullivan on Monday set a hearing date of Oct. 5 to determine whether to grant a Dearborn resident’s request to temporarily block the City of Dearborn’s Civil Service Commission from replacing Commissioner Marge Powell with a new member.

We wrote about the court fight on Monday (click HERE for that story).

The court papers filed by Dearborn attorney Morris Goodman make for some interesting reading. Goodman calls into question the May 21 letter Council President Tom Tafelski issued to the City Attorney’s office concerning Powell not taking the oath within 10 days of her May 2009 appointment. According to the court documents, attached to the letter were records of oaths previously taken by Powell and notarized by the City Clerk, which “are questionable.”

“The oath for the term ending June 30, 2009 and for the term ending June 30, 2003 were apparently taken and notarized on the same day — April 22, 2004,” according to the court documents. “It does not make sense that oaths for two different terms would be administered simultaneously. Furthermore, it is also unlikely that a term ending in June 2003 would be notarized in April 2004.”