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Summary disposition for the defendant property owners in a premises liability complaint based on a dog bite should have been denied because they failed to meet their burden showing that the dangerous conditions on the land were open and obvious, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held.
A trial court improperly evaluated whether a company was an employer when it should have considered whether a worker was an employee, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held in a published decision.
A man who was severely injured when he fell through a hole in a floor while visiting a friend’s home that was under construction was a licensee, not an invitee, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel has ruled, affirming a grant of summary disposition for the defendant general contractor.
Student-on-student sexual harassment is actionable under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held in a matter of first impression. The plaintiff claimed the defendants created a sexually hostile educational environment in violation of the ELCRA by not responding adequately to several incidents of student-on-student sexual harassment at an elementary school.
By Correy E. Stephenson Legal malpractice actions are constrained to the scope of representation where an attorney and a client expressly limit the terms of the attorney’s representation, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming summary disposition in favor of the law firm. Judge Thomas C. Cameron said when a client and an