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· 12/2/1987

Houston v. Southwest Detroit Hospital

Citations

  • 420 N.W.2d 835
  • 166 Mich. App. 623

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • declining to usurp the trial court’s function of evaluating in the first instance whether dismissal was the most appropriate sanction
  • declining to usurp the trial court’s function of evaluating in the first instance whether dismissal was the most appropriate sanction
  • “An appellate court cannot review a decision for abuse of discretion unless it knows how and why the discretionary decision was made.”

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Judges: Shepherd, Gribbs, Lamb

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