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Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria, et al. v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Michigan, No. 370227 · judgment October 6, 2025
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
I. Whether Michigan has authority, under Marbury v Madison, to declare subject-matter jurisdiction “irrelevant” to a civil contempt order issued after the date its underlying statute was declared unconstitutional and within that decision’s prospective application as controlling stare decisis. II. Whether a Court is permitted to perpetuate clearly erroneous law-of-the-case doctrine to hold subject-matter jurisdiction can be waived and rendered “irrelevant” to a civil contempt case.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Helen Vlahos Brinkman
Attorney At Law
For respondent
Ann Maurine Sherman
Michigan Department of Attorney General
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2026.
- Oct 01 2026Waiver of right of respondent Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to respond filed.
- Sep 16 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 21, 2026)