Detroit Business Law – Resources for Metro-Detroit Businesses
Resources for Metro-Detroit Businesses
The Michigan Court of Appeals recently ruled that employees could not enforce provisions detailed in an employee handbook as a binding contract when the handbook specifically identifies itself as “not …
Michigan Court of Appeals Rules that Employee Handbooks are Not Enforceable Contracts when the Handbook Identifies as “Not a Legal Document” Read More
In a recent Michigan Court of Appeals decision (Indiana Michigan Power Co v Community Mills) Docket No. 349671, the Court found that Community Mills was entitled to its full, reasonable …
Michigan Court of Appeals Rules that Full Attorneys’ Fees are Recoverable Under the Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act Read More In a published Opinion from the Michigan Court of Appeals on June 11, 2020, the Court detailed a test to determine when an employee’s use of an employer email account …
Michigan Court of Appeals Sets Out Two-Part Test to Determine Attorney-Client Privilege For Employee’s Communications with Personal Attorney Using Company Email Read More
A party may feel that a decision made by their Zoning Commission or Zoning Board of Appeals has harmed or aggrieved them. In order to prevent that harm, that party …
Who is an Aggrieved Party Entitled to Appeal a Zoning Decision? Read MoreOn April 13, 2016, in Bank of America, NA v. First American Title Ins. Co., Docket No. 149599, the Supreme Court of Michigan held that the “full credit bid” rule …
Michigan Supreme Court Sets a New Precedent Regarding the Full Credit Bid Rule Read MoreIn United States v. Davis, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s order allowing the federal government to enforce its tax lien, and sell the property owned …
Court Orders Couple’s Property Sold to Satisfy Husband’s Delinquent Taxes Read MoreIn late 2015, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed a circuit court’s decision to dismiss a case based on the fact that the matter had already been litigated. In Francis …
Michigan Court of Appeals Rules that Litigant Only Gets One Bite At the Apple Read MoreFor those that own property next to a body of water in Michigan, your ownership rights in that water may be determined by how that body of water was created. …
No Ownership In Artificial Waterways Read MoreOwning property with others is often laden with pitfalls. Problems arise more easily than do means for solving them. In its recent opinion Hrit v. McKeon, the Michigan Court of …
Joint Tenants With Rights of Survivorship Not Able to Unilaterally Partition Property Read MoreIn Leonor v. Provident Life and Accident Co., at al, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an insured was entitled to total disability benefits even though he was …
Total Disability Benefits Allowed to Insured Who Was Still Able to Perform Some of the Important Duties of his Occupation Read More