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← 240 Mich. App. 601 - DeVormer v. DeVormer

240 Mich. App. 601 - DeVormer v. DeVormer’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2005
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “Where the Legislature has unambiguously conveyed its intent in a statute, our role is to apply the terms of the statute to the circumstances in a particular case, not to impose different policy choices than those selected by the Legislature.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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