TOWN v. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Docket Nos. 102845, 103476, Calender Nos. 10-11.

568 N.W.2d 64 (1997)

455 Mich. 688

Veronica TOWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, Ted McCONNELL and Nancy McConnell, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ROLLINS BURDICK HUNTER OF MICHIGAN, INCORPORATED, and Miller, Mason & Dickenson, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 31, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. by Donald J. Gasiorek and Patrick Burkett, Southfield, for Plaintiff-Appellant Town.

Pitt, Dowty & McGehee, P.C. by Michael L. Pitt, Royal Oak, for Plaintiffs-Appellees McConnell.

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman by Thomas G. Kienbaum, Robert W. Powell, and Jennifer A. Zinn, Detroit, for Defendant-Appellee in Town.

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman by Elizabeth Hardy and Julia Turner Baumhart, Bloomfield Hills, for Defendants-Appellants in McConnell.

Clark, Hill, P.L.C. by Duane L. Tarnacki and J. Walker Henry, Detroit, amicus curiae, for Michigan Manufacturers Association.


Opinion

BRICKLEY, Justice.

The issue presented in these consolidated cases is whether the plaintiffs, McConnell and Town, have presented sufficient evidence of age or sex discrimination to surmount a motion for summary disposition and a motion for a directed verdict, respectively. We conclude in both cases that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence that discriminational had been a determining...

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