PALEY v. COCA COLA COMPANY

No. 5 March Term 1973, Docket No. 54,058.

389 Mich. 583 (1973)

209 N.W.2d 232

PALEY v. COCA COLA COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied September 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Mintz (Melvin M. Belli, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Butzel, Long, Gust, Klien & VanZile (by George E. Brand, Jr., Richard E. Rassel and David W. Kendall), for defendant Coca Cola Company.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Anthony J. Sapienza and Thomas D. Sherman), for defendant Glendinning Companies, Inc.

Amicus Curiae: Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Council (by Kratchman & Kratchman, P.C. and Ronald J. Prebenda).


WILLIAMS, J. (to affirm).

Despite the millions of dollars involved in this case and the general struggle to guarantee to the people the right to bring the potentially powerful consumer class action suit in the state's court best equipped with discovery, injunction and other powers, the legal issue in this case is narrow and relatively simple. The legal issue boils down to whether or not the Legislature in its wisdom...

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