After a second appeal to the Supreme Court of Michigan in a case argued by Carson J. Tucker, the Court overruled state case law and holds that federal law preempts state courts from ordering a division of military disability pay in state court divorce proceedings. More analysis on the opinion in Foster v Foster will [...]
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Michigan Supreme Court Issues Clarifying Order Suspending Due Dates for Jurisdictional Appeals
Following up on its prior order and as I had indicated in my prior blog post (Michigan Supreme Court Suspends All Case Filing Deadlines), the Court has now issued a clarifying order "tolling" filing deadlines for jurisdictional appeals; the time for filing a Claim of Appeal and Application for Leave to Appeal in the Supreme [...]
Lex Fori PLLC and Carson J. Tucker File Brief Challenging Michigan’s Property Foreclosure Tax System and Constitutionality of Property Acquisition
Lex Fori, PLLC and Carson J. Tucker recently filed a brief in the Court of Appeals seeking to overturn a property tax foreclosure in which a contracted third-party was sending notices of the tax foreclosure proceedings to a post office box which was no longer in operation. The contractor had access to the property owner's [...]
Carson J. Tucker Files Supreme Court Application in Highway Defect Case
Law Offices of Carson J. Tucker filed an application in the Michigan Supreme Court on February 25 in the case of Menard v Imig requesting the Michigan Supreme Court to tie up loose ends in the interpretation of the notice provision in the Highway Exception to governmental immunity under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA), [...]
Supreme Court Accepts Amicus Curiae Brief prepared by Law Offices of Carson J. Tucker
The Michigan Supreme Court has issued an Order Docketing Amicus Curiae Brief prepared by the Law Offices of Carson J. Tucker on behalf of Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (local affiliate of the Defense Research Institute), in the case of Skidmore v. Consumers Energy Company, Supreme Court Case No. 154030. Prior posts summarized this case, and included the brief. [...]