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WHITE v. CITY OF ANN ARBOR

Docket Nos. 60913, 60919. (Calendar Nos. 9, 10).

406 Mich. 554 (1979)

281 N.W.2d 283

WHITE v. CITY OF ANN ARBOR WHITE v. THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Carter for plaintiff.

R. Bruce Laidlaw, City Attorney, for defendant City of Ann Arbor.

James J. Daskaloff and Thomas P. Beagen for defendant The Detroit Edison Company.

Amici Curiae:

G. Douglas Walton, Deputy City Attorney, for City of Grand Rapids.

Hogan & Hartson (by Gary L. Christensen, R. Clark Wadlow, and Stephen A. Goldberg) and Mark A. Latterman, P.C., for Continental Cablevision of Michigan, Inc.

Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster (by Michael E. Cavanaugh, David E.S. Marvin, and Ronald L. Jacobs) for Michigan Cable Television Association.

Stuart F. Feldstein, Michael B. Isaacs, and M. Thomas Hendrickson for National Cable Television Association, Inc.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Robert D. Dunwoodie, Dennis M. Wilt, and Carolyn D. Bell) for Teleprompter Corporation.

COLEMAN, C.J.

The two subject cases were consolidated in the Court of Appeals because both involve cable television and the meaning of the term "public utility" as that term is used in certain constitutional and statutory provisions.

We granted leave in White v City of Ann Arbor to resolve the issue of whether a city ordinance which authorized the granting of a cable television franchise was unconstitutional under Const 1963, art 7, § 25 because...

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