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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Graham v Foster,
    No. 152058;
    reported below: 311 Mich App 139.
   The parties shall file supplemental briefs within 42 days of the date of this order addressing whether the Court of Appeals correctly held that a necessary-party defendant may be brought into a lawsuit after the expiration of the limitations period based on the relation-back doctrine. See Casserly v Wayne Circuit Judge, 124 Mich 157, 161 (1900), Prather Engineering Co v Detroit, F & S Ry Co, 152 Mich 582, 585 (1908); but see Miller v Chapman Contracting, 477 Mich 102, 105 (2007) (“the relation-back doctrine does not extend to the addition of new parties”). The parties should not submit mere restatements of their application papers.