DOT v. RIVERVIEW-TRENTON RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 345708, No. 346105, No. 346106, No. 346107, No. 346108, No. 346109, No. 346110, No. 346111, No. 346112, No. 346113, No. 346114, No. 346115, No. 346116, No. 346117, No. 346118, No. 346119, No. 346120, No. 346121, No. 346122.

958 N.W.2d 246 (2020)

332 Mich. App. 574

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RIVERVIEW-TRENTON RAILROAD COMPANY and Central Transport, LLC, Defendants-Appellants, and City of Detroit, Dome Pipeline Corporation, DTE Electric Company, EES Coke Battery, LLC, Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit, EDW C. Levy Co., Honeywell International, Inc., International Transmission Company, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA, S&L Development Co., and United States Steel Corp., Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit and Department of Natural Resources, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Defendant. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Defendant. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and Department of Natural Resources, Defendant. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Detroit International Bridge Company, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit and Department of Natural Resources, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Wayne Scrap Iron & Metal Company and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Benjamin Zucker or His Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, and Rose Zucker or Her Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Arcola Clark or Her Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, Gwendolyn Marie Smith or Her Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Defendant. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, DTE Electric Company, Express Service Enterprises, Inc., Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., Thomas McAllen or His Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, Aileen McAllen or Her Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Assigns, Business Loan Center, LLC, United States of America Department of Treasury/Internal Revenue Service, and AFT Investments, LLC, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and Morton Industrial Group, Inc., as Successor in Interest to McLouth Steel Corporation, Department of Natural Resources, and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and Irene Garza and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Department of Natural Resources and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Curtis Penick and City of Detroit, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crown Enterprises, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Rye Gentry Trucking, Inc., Carol A. Gentry Trust Dated 11/8/2000 As it May be Amended, and Carol A. Gentry, Individually and as Trustee, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Defendant. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Detroit, Department of Natural Resources, Samir Habib-Shamkh Al-Fatlawi, Maria Antonieta Pardo-De-Garcia, Marjorie Zaizar, and Ramiro Zaizar, Defendants. Department of Transportation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIBDetroit, LLC, Defendant-Appellant, and Department of Natural Resources, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 18, 2020, 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Fadwa A. Hammoud , Solicitor General, and Mark J. Zausmer , Mischa M. Boardman , and Devin Sullivan , Special Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of Transportation.

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP (by Hershel Wancjer , Hamish P. M. Hume , Samuel Kaplan , and James A. Kraehenbuehl ,) for Riverview-Trenton Railroad Company, Crown Enterprises, Inc., and others.

Before: Cavanagh, P.J., and Stephens and M. J. Kelly, JJ.


In these 19 consolidated appeals,1 various entities controlled by Manuel "Matty" Moroun (the Moroun entities)2 appeal by leave granted3 two orders of the circuit court rejecting challenges to the authority of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT...

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