Hill v. City of Warren

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, when reviewing factual findings for clear error “great deference [is] generally afforded to trial courts, which are in a better position to examine the facts.”
• recognizing the deferential nature of the clear error standard of review and that this standard of review “must, by definition, accommodate the possibility of multiple ‘right’ results, or at least ‘permissible’ results”
• “[FJiling a claim of appeal only prevents the trial court from amending its orders while the appeal is pending, not after remand.”
• discussing MCR 2.604(A) and holding that “[t]he court rules therefore give the trial court explicit procedural authority to revisit an order while the proceedings are still pending and, on that reconsideration, to determine that the original order was mistaken”
• “[F]actual findings are clearly erroneous where there is no evidentiary support for them . . . .”
• “The court rules therefore give the trial court explicit procedural authority to revisit an order while the proceedings are still pending and, on that reconsideration, to determine that the original order was mistaken . . . .”

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