The Michigan Court of Appeals recently offered a case study in judicial triage: with a short “focus order” issued less than two weeks before argument, the panel redirected People v Plomb from two garden-variety issues to a third—judicial interference—that would dominate both the oral argument and the published opinion. What a “focus order” is—and what…
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Reconsideration: We got it wrong. We’re saying so. Now, we’re making it right.
Losing parties regularly file motions for reconsideration. Courts routinely deny them. (The Michigan Supreme Court’s online form proactively warns: “Generally, a motion for reconsideration that merely repeats the same arguments made in prior pleadings will not be granted. The moving party must demonstrate a palpable error by which the Court and the parties have been…