207 Mich. App. 13 - Driver v. Hanley’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"Where there are two acts or provisions, one of which is special and particular, and certainly includes the matter in question, and the other general which, if standing alone, would include the same matter and thus conflict with the special act or provision, the special must be taken as intended to constitute an exception to the general act, as the Legislature is not to be presumed to have intended a conflict." [ Driver v. Hanley , 207 Mich. App. 13 , 17, 523 N.W.2d 815 (1994), quoting Baxter v. Gates Rubber Co. , 171 Mich. App. 588 , 590, 431 N.W.2d 81 (1988), in turn quoting Wayne Co. Prosecutor v. Wayne Circuit Judge , 154 Mich. App. 216 , 221, 397 N.W.2d 274 (1986).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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