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W.D. Mich. LCivR 16.5
Case Evaluation
(a) Definition - The case evaluation program affords litigants an ADR process
patterned after that extensively used in the courts of the State of Michigan. See
Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 600.4951-.4969; Mich. Ct. R. 2.403. Case evaluation
principally involves establishment of the settlement value of a case by a three-member panel of attorneys. The court may order that any civil case in which
damages are sought be submitted to case evaluation; certain tort cases in which the
rule of decision is supplied by Michigan law must be submitted to case evaluation,
unless the parties unanimously agree to submit the case to voluntary facilitative
mediation.
(b) Program description - Procedures and other details regarding the standard and blue
ribbon case evaluation processes are found in the program description, available on
the court’s website.
Provenance
- Source
- www.miwd.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-19
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