The state's Tax Tribunal erred when it concluded that a unitary business group of insurance companies did not file a unitary return for calculations of a premiums tax and related credits under Chapter 12 of the Income Tax Act, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Cheboygan Circuit Court erred when it granted summary disposition to a local visitors bureau in a lawsuit asserting that water and sewer rate increases were actually a tax levied in violation of the Constitution's Headlee Amendment, a split Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
An exclusive remedy in the Worker's Disability Compensation Act does not bar a plaintiff's workplace negligence claims if a subcontractor is being sued, even if that company is not their employer, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
Jackson County's and Clinton County's respective circuit courts did not err when they approved Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act unemployment benefits for two caretakers of children who could not attend school in-person due to COVID pandemic lockdowns, a unanimous Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Prosecutors in the criminal case against former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr, accused of using improper deadly force in the slaying of Patrick Lyoya, presented sufficient evidence in a preliminary examination to establish probable cause and to bind the defendant over for trial, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a 2-1 decisions.
If the Michigan Supreme Court chooses to overturn or further erode a key piece of case laws that draws a line of life without parole sentences for adults near the age of 18 years old, it must give the people a "clear and cogent" explanation of why legal adults – or even minors – are deemed unaccountable for egregious crimes due to their age, a Court of Appeals judge said Thursday.
If a contract gives one party discretion, the other party can challenge actions under that discretion if they are harmed by the results, the Court of Appeals ruled in a published opinion released Friday.
The laws codifying a 2020 Supreme Court ruling on former property owners' rights to monetary proceeds following a tax foreclosure comports with procedural due process and other constitutional requirements, a Court of Appeals panel ruled this week.
The legal battles continue on the age threshold when someone should be eligible for a life without parole sentence with the Court of Appeals ruling this week that a 19-year-old convicted of first-degree murder can receive such a sentence.
A unanimous Court of Appeals panel on Thursday vacated the sentence of man convicted of first-degree murder when he was a teenager, as the trial court did not consider the defendant's age as a mitigating factor.