With the Memorial Day weekend upon us, I thought it was appropriate to post thefurlough schedule for the Michigan Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and SCAO.  The schedule was announcedby the Supreme Court Wednesday, May 20, 2009.  For those of you that do appellate work, if your filing is due on any of the furlough days, you get an extra day’s reprieve because furlough days will be treated as court holidays and your deadline is extended to the next business day.

The Michigan Supreme Court has announced that it, the Court of Appeals, and the State Court Administrative Office (SCAO) will take six mandatory furlough days by the end of the fiscal year.  The furlough days will fall on the following dates: 

• Friday, June 19
• Monday, July 6
• Friday, July 24
• Friday, August 7
• Friday, August 21
• Friday, September 4

On these days, both the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office and the Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s Office will be closed and so will not be accepting filings.  The furlough days will be treated as court holidays for the purpose of filing deadlines, which means that any filings due on a furlough day will be accepted as timely if received on the next regular business day.  The Court’s press release is available here.