HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Student who was ineligible to play basketball as a 5th-year senior after Covid absence pursuant to MHSA’s “Semester Rule” was deprived of due process in his request for a waiver… case not moot pursuant to public interest exception but student not entitled to further relief after graduation… Murnion/Wittman reversed. [Read more…]
Probate, tangential civil jurisdiction
PROBATE: Invitation to “buck” precedent and allow courts sitting in probate to exercise jurisdiction over tangential matters declined… fiduciary duty, negligence, fraud, bad faith claims related to PR’s alleged sale of house under market value properly dismissed… but Foy fees improperly awarded as arguments that jurisdictional precedent should be overruled not “wholly frivolous or malicious”… Seeley affirmed, reversed (memorandum). [Read more…]
School athletics, 8-semester rule waiver request
SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Supervisory control of Murnion denied as to denial of preliminary injunction seeking waiver from 8-semester rule for 5th-year senior to play basketball after absence due to Covid… order. [Read more…]