Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Orders – 2026
The orders by which the Supreme Court of Michigan administers the courts, 279 of them from 1968 to 2026, published in one volume beside the Michigan Court Rules and cited by year and number. They are where much of Michigan practice actually lives: AO 1989-1 governs film and electronic media coverage of court proceedings, AO 1990-2 the Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts program and the distribution of its funds, AO 2003-3 the appointment of counsel for indigent criminal defendants, AO 1988-4 the sentencing guidelines that still govern offences committed before January 1, 1999, and AO 1987-1 access to juror personal history questionnaires. Later orders run to electronic filing, remote and video proceedings, the submission of case data to the Judicial Data Warehouse, and the concurrent jurisdiction plans by which a county's circuit, district and probate courts share work. Seventy-eight have been rescinded and are published marked as such, so that a citation in an older opinion still resolves and says what became of the order.
Browse all 278 rules of the 2026 edition organized by section below. Each rule includes the full text, a plain-English summary, committee notes, amendment history, and cross-references to related rules. Use the search box to find rules by keyword or number.