Marvin Willie Hawkins v. John Malone

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “plaintiffs’ motion for leave to amend actually sought leave to file a supplemental pleading,” and that courts “are not bound by a party’s choice of labels because this would effectively elevate form over substance”
• stating that a circuit court’s decision whether to allow a party to serve a supplemental pleading is discretionary
• stating that the date of the assignment is “the pertinent point of reference for purposes of the one-year-back rule”
• declining to exercise jurisdiction to review a waived issue for want of a compelling reason to do so
• describing a provision conditioning assignment on consent as “perfectly clear” and collecting Michigan cases enforcing unambiguous anti-assignment provisions
• declining to exercise jurisdiction to review a waived issue for want of a compelling reason to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).