Summary
The Michigan Supreme Court denied Linda Mack's motion for rehearing in her action against the City of Detroit involving a claimed charter-based cause of action for sexual-orientation discrimination. Separate concurring and dissenting statements address governmental immunity under the Governmental Tort Liability Act, the overruling of McCummings v. Hurley Medical Center, and whether the Court violated procedural due process by deciding issues without prior briefing or argument. The dissent would have granted rehearing.
Holdings
- The motion for rehearing was denied.
Questions Presented
- Whether the motion for rehearing of the Supreme Court's prior decision should be granted.
- Whether the Court violated procedural due process by deciding governmental-immunity and governmental-tort-liability issues without giving the plaintiff an additional opportunity to brief and argue them.
- Whether the governmental tort liability act precluded the plaintiff's charter-based sexual-orientation-discrimination claim against the City of Detroit.
Disposition
writ_denied
Cases Cited (21)
- Mack v. City of Detroit, 467 Mich. 186, 649 N.W.2d 47 (2002)(followed)
- Haji v. Prevention Insurance Agency, Inc., 196 Mich. App. 84, 492 N.W.2d 460 (1992)(distinguished)
- Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Co. v. Hill, 281 U.S. 673, 50 S. Ct. 451, 74 L. Ed. 1107 (1930)(distinguished)
- Rice v. Ruddiman, 10 Mich. 125 (1862)(followed)
- Bradway v. Miller, 200 Mich. 648, 167 N.W. 15 (1918)(followed)
- In re Finlay Estate, 430 Mich. 590, 424 N.W.2d 272 (1988)(followed)
- Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S. Ct. 817, 82 L. Ed. 1188 (1938)(followed)
- Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S. Ct. 1684, 6 L. Ed. 2d 1081 (1961)(followed)
- Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n, 527 U.S. 526, 540, 119 S. Ct. 2118, 144 L. Ed. 2d 494 (1999)(followed)
- Federated Publications, Inc. v. Lansing, 467 Mich. 98, 649 N.W.2d 383 (2002)(followed)
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