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Survey Of Metropolitan Courts: Detroit Area, Maxine Boord Virtue
Survey Of Metropolitan Courts: Detroit Area, Maxine Boord Virtue
Michigan Legal Studies Series
It has long been recognized that the social problems of the city are something more than a mere multiple of the social problems of the rural community. The bigness of the metropolitan area breeds its own difficulties, which find no counterpart outside its borders. Only recently, however, have experts begun to suggest that this same uniqueness inheres in the problems of the organization of metropolitan courts.
Should the organization of the metropolitan court system differ from court organization elsewhere? How should it differ? Before these questions can be answered, we must know something of existing court organizations in metropolitan areas …
Unreported Opinions Of The Supreme Court Of Michigan, 1836-1843, William W. Blume
Unreported Opinions Of The Supreme Court Of Michigan, 1836-1843, William W. Blume
Michigan Legal Studies Series
In July 1836 final jurisdiction of non-federal litigation passed from the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court to the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan. Then, substantially as now, the Constitution provided: "The judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and such other courts as the legislature may from time to time establish." Mich. Const. 1835, Art. VI, §1. Those who are interested in the judicial history of Michigan prior to 1836 are fortunate in having access to much of such history contained in the six volumes entitled "Transactions of the Supreme Court of Michigan," edited by Professor William …