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477 Mich. 102

730 N.W.2d 462

Miller v. Chapman Contracting

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 25, 2007

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 2007-04-25

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Decided 2007-04-25

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Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2018

21 state decisions

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WEAVER, J.

¶1(dissenting). I would deny leave to appeal in this case because to do otherwise would create an injustice.

¶2I believe that the bankruptcy trustee in this case is not a “new party” in the sense of “another party” being added by amendment of the complaint. Rather, the amendment in this case simply involves replacing the wrongly named plaintiff, “Buddy Miller,” with the correct name of Buddy Miller’s bankruptcy trustee, “Wendy Turner Lewis.” As a result, any caselaw dis*109cussing whether the relation-back doctrine applies to adding plaintiffs to a suit is immaterial because a new plaintiff is not being added.

¶3The Michigan Court Rules do not address the protocol for addition of parties to a suit. This Court has opened an administrative file to consider whether we should adopt, or not adopt, a rule amending the Michigan Court Rules to govern the addition of a party to a suit.

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