In Michigan, minority shareholders in closely-held corporations can sue directors and officers for illegal, fraudulent, or willfully unfair and oppressive actions. If successful, the oppressed shareholder can get relief ranging from damages to dissolution of the corporation. But who decides whether the shareholder was oppressed and, if so, what the appropriate relief should be? The…

It’s pretty basic, really. If a person slips or trips over something that they saw or could have seen, that person doesn’t get to recover from the property owner for the resulting injuries. That’s the upshot of the open-and-obvious doctrine. It’s rooted in the idea that we are all responsible, first and foremost, for our…