Woods v. SLB Property Management, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding a trial court’s decision on a motion for reconsideration is reviewed for an abuse of discretion
• noting that the sanction of dismissal under MCR 2.504(B)(1) “is a drastic sanction that requires” the court to consider several factors
• noting that “ ‘[a]n appellant’s failure to properly address the merits of his assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issue’ ”
• stating that the defendant would have been prejudiced by the failure to dismiss the case because the plaintiff’s amended complaint was incomprehensible
• indicating that an appellant may not fail to address the basis of the trial court’s decision, and that failure to properly address the merits of an assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issue
• noting that appellants must support their arguments by citation to appropriate authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).