Michigan Lawyers Weekly

The trial court erred by excluding the 102-day stay period provided by the Michigan Supreme Court’s COVID-19 tolling orders from its calculation of when the applicable limitations period expire...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/30/covid-19-tolling-orders-keep-med-mal-suit-alive/

Two fatal crashes involving Ford's Blue Cruise partially automated driving system have drawn the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators. The post US opens investigation into Ford crashes involv...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/29/us-opens-investigation-into-ford-crashes-involving-blue-cruise-partially-automated-driving-system/

TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company, a move almost certainly backed by Chines...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/29/tiktok-law-kicks-off-new-showdown-between-beijing-and-washington-whats-coming-next/

The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authori...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/29/owner-of-exploded-michigan-building-arrested-at-airport-while-trying-to-leave-us-authorities-say/

A trial court improperly struck an injured woman’s expert witness in meteorology in a slip and fall case, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel has held, reversing a grant of summary disposition fo...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/29/court-erred-striking-meteorology-expert-in-slip-and-fall-case/

Where the plaintiff mother of a child who has identified as female since the child was a toddler despite having been born with male anatomy filed a for sole legal custody and to restrict defendan...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/26/parent-and-child-custody-parenting-time-4/

Where a medical malpractice complaint was dismissed as untimely, the trial court misapplied Administrative Order 2020-3 by failing to exclude the 102-day tolling period from its calculation of pl...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/26/civil-practice-limitations-tolling-3/

Where a plaintiff was awarded counsel fees as a result of defendant’s failure to comply with a particular request for records under the Freedom of Information Act, the fee award should be uphel...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/26/attorneys-fees-freedom-of-information-act/

Where summary disposition was granted to the defendants in a workplace negligence action, that judgment must be reversed because the plaintiff was not an employee of the defendants, so the exclus...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/26/workers-compensation-exclusivity-subcontractors/

Where a mother’s parental rights were terminated, that order must be vacated because respondent was not properly served with the summons and supplemental petition and was denied the right to co...

https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2024/04/26/parent-and-child-termination-7/