Michigan Supreme Court Announces Cases for November 2017 Oral Arguments
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These brief accounts may not reflect the way that some or all of the Court's seven justices view the cases. The attorneys may also disagree about the facts, issues, procedural history, and significance of these cases. For further details about the cases, please contact the attorneys.
Morning Session -
153309, People of MI v
A jury convicted defendant of second-degree murder and weapons charges for the fatal shooting of his girlfriend's mother. On appeal, defendant raises several issues, including claims that two police officers who had not performed a gunshot residue test on defendant's hands should have been precluded from testifying that the result of the test was positive, and that defendant's trial attorney rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to the testimony. The Court of Appeals affirmed defendant's convictions in an unpublished per curiam opinion. The
153893,
Plaintiff
152567, People of MI v
In 2013, defendant entered a conditional no contest plea to unarmed robbery and was sentenced as a fourth-offense habitual offender to serve a prison term. Defendant's plea was conditioned on his ability to challenge on appeal the legality of his arrest by the police who forcibly entered his motel room without a warrant. On remand from the
Afternoon Session - Approximately
154026, Atlantic Casualty Ins Co v
154358,
Plaintiff
154374, People of MI v
In 2014, defendant
Morning Session -
154364, Grass Lk Improvement Bd v Dep't of Environmental Quality
The Grass Lake Improvement Board (Board) filed an application with the
155152, In re Hill, Minors
A family court terminated respondent mother's parental rights to her two minor children after she failed to adequately comply with a service plan. On appeal, she argued that the family court obtained jurisdiction over the children by a flawed adjudication process during which she was not advised of her rights or the consequences of her plea, as required by MCR 3.971(B)(3) and (4). The Court of Appeals acknowledged the error, but held that respondent could not mount a collateral challenge to jurisdiction after her parental rights were terminated, citing In re Hatcher, 443 Mich 426 (1993). The
153979,
In this property dispute between two adjacent businesses, customers of plaintiff
154117-9, AFT Michigan v
In response to a budget shortfall in the public school system, the Legislature enacted 2010 PA 75, which modified retirement benefits for public school employees. One statute, MCL 38.1343e, required all current public school employees to contribute 3percent of their salaries to a retirement system to assist in funding retiree healthcare benefits. Plaintiffs, a large group of public school employee unions, challenged the constitutionality of this act and the approximately
154437,
Plaintiff
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