A Court of Claims judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a pandemic-era class action lawsuit that claimed the Unemployment Insurance Agency violated due process rights when it garnished wages or intercepted income tax refunds for determinations the plaintiffs appealed.
The State of Michigan must pay a woman $475,000 as a result of injuries she sustained after a Department of State Police trooper rear-ended her vehicle.
A medical cannabis provider and the Department of Treasury have agreed correct the amount of tax owed to the state after a winding lawsuit that the provider lost both at the trial court and upon appeal, court records show.
More than 100 Cout of Claims opinions from the last few years are now available online, the judiciary announced Wednesday.
The Court of Appeals on Thursday quickly rejected an effort from Kristina Karamo to keep control of the Michigan Republican Party.
The Public Service Commission did not reversibly err when it modified Consumers Energy's reconciliation plan to disallow costs associated with the extension of a planned outage, 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.
A Court of Appeals panel on Thursday vacated its previous holding regarding a case of alleged unconstitutional takings when a property was foreclosed for delinquent property taxes, this time reversing the lower court's holding and remanding the case for further proceedings.
Judge Brock Swartzle is now the lead judge for the Court of Claims, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered Wednesday.