Vanderwerp v. Plainfield Charter Township

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the plain meaning of “individual” is a single human being and does not include a limited liability company in context of a property tax exemption issue
• applying a dictionary definition to the undefined term “individual” in the General Property Tax Act, MCL 211.1 et seq.
• “[A]ppellants may not merely announce their position and leave it to this Court to discover and rationalize the basis for their claims[.]”
• “The powers of the [Tribunal] are limited to those authorized by statute, and the [Tribunal] does not have powers of equity.”
• “[A]ppellants may not merely announce their position and leave it to this Court to discover and rationalize the basis for their claims[.]”
• “appellants may not merely announce their position and leave it to this Court to discover and rationalize the basis for their claims; nor may they give issues cursory treatment with little or no citation of supporting authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).