The Court of Appeals on Friday ruled a probation order can lawfully restrict recreational marijuana use under the state's law legalizing the drug for those over 21 years old.
A Court of Appeals panel declined to take up a complaint from Lisa Marie Neilson, who was attempting to run for the 2nd District Court of Appeals before the Board of State Canvassers determined she didn't submit sufficient signatures to make the ballot.
Second District Court of Appeals candidate Lisa Neilson was deemed ineligible to appear on the August primary ballot after a successful challenge to her nominating petition signatures found more than 2,000 were invalid, the Bureau of Elections said in a staff report released Friday.
The Department of Natural Resources should have been granted summary disposition and the estate of a former department ranger, who died in a fiery crash with a snow mobile near the Algonquin Ski Trail, was correctly granted summary disposition in a lawsuit surrounding the crash, the Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision issued Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar filed a challenge Tuesday asserting one of his opponents for the Democratic nomination in the 13th U.S. House District, former Sen. Adam Hollier, failed to submit sufficient valid petitions for access to the August primary ballot.
The race to replace retiring Court of Appeals Judge Kathleen Jansen and Judge Deborah Servitto is on as four candidates seek their seats on the appellate bench this year, with a current prosecutor, a retired judge and two practicing attorneys each indicating their intentions to run.
A single Parole Board member who conducts a public hearing is not required to take a vote on whether a case before them is eligible for parole, especially in situations where a given member has since left their post, but votes to deny parole cannot end it in a tie, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Michigan Republican Party and the Republican National Committee lacked standing to sue members of the Flint Board of Election Commissioners for violating election law because it did not appoint "as nearly as possible" the same amount of election inspectors from each major party in the 2022 primary and general elections, a split Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Walt Disney Company has – for the second time – lost its unclaimed property dispute with the Department of Treasury upon reconsideration by the Court of Appeals.
A Court of Appeals panel on Thursday split the difference in a pair of premises liability cases that questioned whether the Michigan Supreme Court's overturning of key precedent affecting those cases had retroactive effect, reversing in one case and affirming in the other.