Schafer and Weiner Wins Appeals at Michigan Supreme Court

Daniel Weiner, Michael Baum, Howard Borin, Joseph Grekin, and Kim Hillary represent a real estate company and its individual owner.  The plaintiff in an action previously decided in arbitration accused the individual client of bribing the arbitrator to obtain a favorable decision and sought to re-open the arbitration to obtain a different result with a different arbitrator.  Schafer and Weiner successfully argued that the time to make such allegations had passed and denied the plaintiff the opportunity to re-open the arbitration.  Schafer and Weiner also successfully argued that what the plaintiff described as its judgment resulting from the arbitration was actually a judgment lien, that the lien had not been timely renewed, and that the plaintiff was owed nothing.  The plaintiff appealed both decisions, first to the Court of Appeals and then to the Michigan Supreme Court.  Schafer and Weiner successfully argued that the trial court’s decisions should be upheld in each forum.  As a result, the real estate company and the individual now owe nothing at all to the plaintiff.