In re PETITION BY TREASURER OF WAYNE COUNTY FOR FORECLOSURE
Wayne County Treasurer, Petitioner, and
Matthew Tatarian and Michael Kelly, Intervening Parties-Appellants,
v.
Perfecting Church, Respondent-Appellee.
Supreme Court of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 5, 2006.
Decided May 23, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C. (by Jason D. Killips, Sara K. MacWilliams, Robert J. Curtis, and James Geary), Bloomfield Hills, for Perfecting Church.
Aldrich Legal Services, P.L.L.C. (by Brad B. Aldrich), Plymouth, for Matthew Tatarian and Michael Kelly.
Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Kevin T. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, for amici curiae the Department of Treasury.
Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas F. Schimpf, Division Chief, and Kevin L. Francart, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, for amici curiae the Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority.
Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Terrence Grady, Division Chief, and Matthew H. Rick, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, for amici curiae the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C. (by Jill M. Wheaton, Theodore W. Seitz, and Stacy R. Owen), Lansing, for amici curiae the Michigan Association of County Treasurers.
Simon, Galasso & Frantz, P.L.C. (by Kenneth G. Frantz), Troy, for amici curiae High Praise Cathedral of Faith Ministries.
Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C. (by Kevin J. Roragen and Michael H. Rhodes), Lansing, for amici curiae, Westhaven Manor LDHA LP.
John E. Johnson, Jr., Corporation Counsel, and Joanne D. Stafford and James Noseda, Assistant Corporation Counsels, Detroit, for amici curiae the city of Detroit.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
YOUNG, J.
This case concerns the jurisdiction of circuit courts to modify judgments of foreclosure when the foreclosing governmental unit deprives the property owner of due process. Generally, the provision of the General Property Tax Act (GPTA),1 at issue in this case, as well as recent amendments of the GPTA, reflect a legislative effort to provide finality to foreclosure judgments and to quickly return property to the tax rolls. However...
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