( November 4, 2024, 1:05 PM EST) -- LANSING, Mich. — A divided Michigan Supreme Court on Nov. 1 reversed a split lower appellate panel ruling that a challenge to a state statute on which a COVID-era executive order imposing restrictions on gathering size was based was not moot and remanded the case to the appellate court for entry of an order granting summary disposition in favor of the director of the state department of health and human services....