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actual-prejudice requirement in Michigan

6 Michigan opinions name it 2 courts 2020–2026 4 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Michigan courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (1)

CaseFollowedCited
Rowland v. Washtenaw County Road Commissiongreen
mich · 2007 · cited in 5 Michigan opinions naming this issue, 2020–2021
2 sentences

2021Thirty years later, in Rowland v Washtenaw Co Rd Comm, 477 Mich 197 (2007), the Court overruled Hobbs and Brown, holding that the GTLA did not contain an actual- prejudice requirement before enforcement of the notice provision, that the earlier cases had improperly engrafted that requirement onto the statute, and that a governmental agency did not have to show actual prejudice before the 120-day notice provision could be enforced.

2021Thirty years later, in Rowland v Washtenaw Co Rd Comm, 477 Mich 197 (2007), the Court overruled Hobbs and Brown, holding that the GTLA did not contain an actual- prejudice requirement before enforcement of the notice provision, that the earlier cases had improperly engrafted that requirement onto the statute, and that a governmental agency did not have to show actual prejudice before the 120-day notice provision could be enforced.

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Michigan. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (2)

CaseCitedYears
McCAHAN v. BRENNAN green
mich · 2012
2 sentences

2020Similarly, in McCahan v Brennan, 492 Mich 730, 733 ; 822 NW2d 747 (2012), we held that the notice provision of the Court of Claims Act, MCL 600.6431, “must be 5 interpreted and enforced as plainly written and that no judicially created saving construction is permitted to avoid a clear statutory mandate.” More specifically, we held that “when the Legislature conditions the ability to pursue a claim against the state on a plaintiff’s having filed specific statutory notice, the courts may not engraft an ‘actual prejudice’ component onto the statute as a precondition to enforcing the legislative p

2020Similarly, in McCahan v Brennan, 492 Mich 730, 733 ; 822 NW2d 747 (2012), we held that the notice provision of the Court of Claims Act, MCL 600.6431, “must be 5 interpreted and enforced as plainly written and that no judicially created saving construction is permitted to avoid a clear statutory mandate.” More specifically, we held that “when the Legislature conditions the ability to pursue a claim against the state on a plaintiff’s having filed specific statutory notice, the courts may not engraft an ‘actual prejudice’ component onto the statute as a precondition to enforcing the legislative p

22020–2020
People v. Cress green
mich · 2003
2 sentences

2026In order for a new trial to be granted on the basis of newly discovered evidence, a defendant must show that: (1) the evidence itself, not merely its materiality, was newly discovered; (2) the newly discovered evidence was not cumulative; (3) the party could not, using reasonable diligence, have discovered and produced the evidence at trial; and (4) the new evidence makes a different result probable on retrial. [Id. at 566, citing People v Cress, 468 Mich 678, 692 ; 664 NW2d 174 (2003) (quotation marks omitted).] “As our Supreme Court has explained, Cress’s first three prongs relate to the goo

2026In order for a new trial to be granted on the basis of newly discovered evidence, a defendant must show that: (1) the evidence itself, not merely its materiality, was newly discovered; (2) the newly discovered evidence was not cumulative; (3) the party could not, using reasonable diligence, have discovered and produced the evidence at trial; and (4) the new evidence makes a different result probable on retrial. [Id. at 566, citing People v Cress, 468 Mich 678, 692 ; 664 NW2d 174 (2003) (quotation marks omitted).] “As our Supreme Court has explained, Cress’s first three prongs relate to the goo

12026–2026

Statutes the citing opinions construe

MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1401 (5) MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 224.1 (3) MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 224.21 (3) MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1101 (3) MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1402 (3) MI § Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1404 (3)

Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.

Where else courts name it

OH 12 (2016–2025) MI 6 (2020–2026) GA 2 (2019–2019)

Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.

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