Recent News About Michigan Supreme Court
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder last week appointed Judge David Viviano to the state Supreme Court, taking the place of former Justice Diane Hathaway.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway pleaded guilty Tuesday to committing bank fraud in connection with property owned in Grosse Pointe Park.
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Lansing, Mish. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously has elected Robert P. Young Jr. as a chief justice for a second term.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court is one of a handful that could see its makeup change in a significant way on Tuesday.
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Brewer LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - At its state convention in Lansing over the weekend, the Michigan Democratic Party nominated three women to run for the state Supreme Court.
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Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a union-backed proposal that would add the right to collective bargaining for public and private sector employees to the state constitution should be added to the state's November ballot.
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Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The owners of a building that housed a gym are not liable for a woman's back injuries, which she incurred after falling on an icy sidewalk, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week.
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Chief Justice Robert P. Young Jr. LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court, in an order last month, said it will hear an appeal by one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers in a case over a state foreclosure law.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway once took the stance that a woman who was battling breast cancer and was abandoned by her husband was still liable for the entire amounts of two mortgages.
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LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - An appeals court in California has ruled that Ford Motor Company had no duty to protect a woman from asbestos brought home on the clothing of her brother and father.
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Hathaway DETROIT (Legal Newsline) - The independent state agency tasked with investigating judicial misconduct and recommending discipline will not say if it is looking into allegations that a sitting Michigan Supreme Court justice engaged in suspicious real estate transactions.
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Hathaway DETROIT (Legal Newsline) - Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert P. Young Jr. is asking a fellow justice to respond to recent allegations that she engaged in suspicious real estate transactions.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider two auto insurance cases in which individuals drove their family members' cars -- though forbidden to do so -- and injured themselves.
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Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court last week ordered a district court judge be removed from office for misconduct, including "fixing" traffic citations issued to himself, his wife and his staff.
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Snyder LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not hear Gov. Rick Snyder's appeal on a controversial state employee pay deduction plan.
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Markman LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court earlier this month approved most of Gov. Rick Snyder's controversial plan to tax pensions.
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Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan's House Judiciary Committee is taking up a plan that calls for eliminating a significant number of judgeships statewide.
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Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan must eliminate 45 trial court judgeships as a first step toward "rebalancing the workload" of the state's courts, according to an annual judicial report released last week.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer for two attorneys accused of charging excessive fees that drained the Rosa Parks estate said in a filing Monday that he wants the Michigan Supreme Court to stay out of the fight.
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Kelly LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, has refused to throw out a woman's lawsuit against a Texas Roadhouse restaurant after one of its toilet paper dispensers allegedly broke her hand.
