Sunday, March 20, 2011

Public hearing March 30

A public administrative hearing by the Supreme Court is scheduled for March 30, 2011 in Lansing. Nine of the pending proposed rules will be addressed at that time.

This is the first public administrative hearing that has been held since September 2009.

Mediation - confidentiality

Court rule affected - 2.412 (new)
Admin no. - 2010-30
Proposed - 11-23-10
Adopted - 4-5-11
Effective - 9-1-11

The court previously proposed a Rule 2.412 on October 28, 2009. This proposal does not mention the previous proposal or explain why it has been reissued.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Proposed changes - jury instructions

The Committee is considering modifications to the Model Civil Jury Instructions as follows. All proposals solicit comments by May 31, 2011. All links are to PDF files.

Product liability - Implied Warranty (two instructions - 25.21 and .22)

Medical Malpractice - the proposal is to delete 30.20, loss of a chance, in its entirety

Auto cases - 36.11, serious impairment - amendments to conform to McCormick

Trust contests - a new Chapter 179