Michigan in the United States
Legal Materials
Business entities: You can look up Michigan business registrations using theCorporation Division Business Entities Search. For questions, call the Corporation Division at 517-241-6470.
Legislative Branch: The Michigan Legislative Information Service provides Bills, Bill Status information, Acts, the Michigan statutory code, the Michigan Constitution, and an Archive with prior editions of the Constitution. For commercial database vendors, seeState Statutes and Codes and State Bills. For legislative history guides, see State Legislative History.
Judicial Branch: Reported cases are available free back to 1950 from Google Scholar. Lexis and Westlaw provide comprehensive case databases. For additional resources, see State Cases, Case Pulls, Docket Sheets and/or State Court Rules.
For more information:
For questions about Michigan legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try the Michigan State Library (517-373-0630), the Michigan State University College of Law Library (517-432-6870), or the University of Michigan Law Library (734-764-9324).
Links to primary legal materials and government agencies are posted by FindLaw andWashLaw.
Michigan Legal Literature: An Annotated Guide is still historically useful but, to my knowledge, was last published in 1991.
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
For more U.S. state primary law resources, see:
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Cases
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Law: Codes
- U.S. State Law: Statutes
- U.S. State Legislative: Bills
- U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the Michigan Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Michigan jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Michigan statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- Michigan Codes & Regulations
- MI Cases & Case Law
- Michigan Legal Websites
- MI State Government Info
- Michigan Counties
- Michigan Cities
- Michigan Legislation
- Michigan Media Sources
- Michigan Law Enforcement
- MI Court Reporters/Depositions
- Michigan Legal Forms
- Michigan Courts
- Michigan Local Court Rules
- MI State Bar/Legal Associations