The MI SCT recently issued its highly anticipated decision in Bazzi v Sentinel Ins Co, in which the justices declared that no-fault’s “innocent third-party rule” no longer exists.

A trial court judge did not have to disqualify himself from the defendant’s criminal case even though the judge had publicly endorsed the prosecutor in a Circuit Court election campaign.

A trial judge should not have stricken a plaintiff’s expert witnesses as a sanction for violating discovery orders, the COA has ruled, finding that the sanction was too harsh.

An auto accident victim is entitled to no-fault insurance benefits under his parents’ no-fault policy where the victim’s parents committed insurance fraud after the policy was purchased.

A prosecutor’s “grossly improper” remarks during closing argument in a child abuse case, constituted deliberate prosecutorial misconduct and “poisoned the proceedings”.

Livingston County District Court Judge Theresa Brennan is no longer hearing cases amid the release of an explosive misconduct complaint from the Judicial Tenure Commission.

A trial court should not have dismissed the plaintiff’s no-fault case with prejudice because of the plaintiff’s “unavailability”.

The day after the baby was born, the midwife told the parents it was suffering from jaundice. The parents didn’t take the baby to the doctor, electing to pray for the baby’s good health instead.

An appeal involving the entry of a personal protection order (PPO) is not moot just because the PPO expired while the appeal was pending, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled.

In a case where the respondent-mother’s parental rights had been terminated, the COA held that her appeal was not moot, even though the child died while the appeal was pending.

In Reynolds v Hasbany, the Court of Appeals held the circuit court wrongly dismissed the plaintiff’s weight discrimination lawsuit against her former employer

The 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals recently took several defense lawyers to task in a published opinion, chastising them for persuading the federal district court to defy the 11th Circuit’s remand instructions in the case.

In In re Ballard, the trial court had placed the 3 children in the custody of their maternal grandmother, before doing so, the trial court did not terminate the biological father’s parental rights.

Instead of hearing arguments in its standard Lansing courtroom, however, the Court held the arguments at Lake Superior State University in front of an audience of approximately 500 students.

The rulings are concerning for prospective adoptive parents because they allow putative fathers to stop an adoption in its tracks, by obtaining an order of filiation from the trial court.

A trial court properly took jurisdiction over a mother’s three children after she allegedly coerced one of them into a gender role with which the child did not identify.

The decision in Mosby-Meachem v Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division affirmed a jury verdict for the employee of more than $110,000, including compensatory damages and back pay.

The Michigan trial court dismissed the custody case in Michigan, finding that under the UCCJEA jurisdiction was proper in Georgia because the Georgia case had been filed first.