WOLL v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

Docket Nos. 61257, 60809, 60810. (Calendar Nos. 7, 8).

409 Mich. 500 (1980)

297 N.W.2d 578

WOLL v. ATTORNEY GENERAL PEOPLE v. POSNER PEOPLE v. KEANE

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barris, Golob & DuMouchel, P.C., for plaintiff Woll.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney.

Patrick J. Foley, Director, Wayne County Organized Crime Task Force, and Paul S. Teranes, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant Attorney General.

Theodore Stephens, Deputy Chief, Civil Department, and Rheo C. Marchand, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for defendant Wayne County Prosecutor.

Posner, Posner & Posner for defendant Posner.

Lippitt, Harrison, Perlove, Friedman & Zack (by Robert S. Harrison and Bernard Feldman) for defendant Keane.


LEVIN, J.

A statute makes it a misdemeanor to solicit a person injured as a result of an accident for the purpose of making a claim for damages or prosecuting an action based on the injury.1 Woll, Posner and Keane, who are lawyers, were indicted under the statute. They contend that the statute is void for vagueness and because it deprives them of equal protection of the law. Woll further contends...

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