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.
The Ingham Circuit Court erred when it vacated an arbitrator's determination that a Department of State Police employee shouldn't have been fired, the Court of Appeals ruled last week.
The Livingston Circuit Court erred when it ignored a request for damages in a Medicaid benefits lawsuit and must reassess the validity of a disabled man's attempt to seek damages from a Livingston mental health provider, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Court of Claims did not err when it when held that the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and one of its employees were protected against tort claims through governmental immunity, the Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous decision issued Thursday.
The Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed its initial affirmation of an Oakland Circuit Court ruling against Treasurer Rachael Eubanks in consolidated Uniform Unclaimed Property Act lawsuits.
An estate can seek work-loss benefits when filing a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a traffic crash, the Court of Appeals has ruled in a case highlighting the difference between a suit under the auto no-fault law and one under the wrongful death act.