Towing service liable for $1.3M in damages – Plaintiff injured when...
Plaintiff injured when improperly secured trailer causes accident The post Towing service liable for $1.3M in damages – Plaintiff injured when improperly secured trailer causes accident first appeared...
View ArticlePedestrian neglects to yield right-of-way, is hit by automobile – Expert: Wet...
Expert: Wet road, no ABS meant driver didn't have enough time to fully stop The post Pedestrian neglects to yield right-of-way, is hit by automobile – Expert: Wet road, no ABS meant driver didn't have...
View ArticleConstitutional Interpretation- The Legislature may delegate some taxing...
The Legislature may delegate some of its taxing authority to the circuit courts because the Michigan Constitution does not require an absolute separation of powers. The post Constitutional...
View ArticleFamily Law- No requirement of ‘equal’ to be ‘equitable’
In a property division upon divorce, each spouse need not receive a mathematically equal share, but significant departures from congruence must be explained clearly by the court; conversely, a property...
View ArticleProperty – Easement — Trespass
Where a person becomes the owner of both the dominant and servient properties, any preexisting express easement is extinguished; however, an easement by necessity is created where a divestiture leaves...
View ArticleInsurance – Transportation — Statutory Construction
Where medical transportation vehicle involved in an accident did not qualify as a "bus," but was a "van," the trial court erred in applying statute to find defendant exempt from liability. The post...
View ArticleCriminal Law – Jury tampering — Pamphlets
Where a defendant was convicted of jury tampering, MCL 750.120a(1), a misdemeanor, the conviction was sufficiently supported by evidence that he attempted to influence jurors when he stood in front of...
View ArticleFamily Law – Termination of parental rights
Where a father’s parental rights to his daughter were terminated based on his methamphetamine use and inability to complete services due to repeated periods of incarceration during the proceedings,...
View ArticleReal property – Prescriptive easement — Driveway
Where a judge awarded the defendants summary disposition on the plaintiffs’ prescriptive easement claim, the judgment should be vacated to the extent that the trial court addressed and decided whether...
View ArticleReal Property — Survey – Monuments
Where a judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a boundary dispute, that judgment should be upheld because the defendant failed to submit documentary evidence of a survey that relied on monuments and...
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