WXYZ, INC. v. HAND

No. 79-1162.

658 F.2d 420 (1981)

WXYZ, INC., and Michigan Association of Broadcasters, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael J. HAND, District Judge, 47th Judicial District Court of the State of Michigan, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Kiefer, Kiefer, Allen & Cavanagh, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant.

John B. Kemp, Kemp, Klein, Endelman & Beer, Raymond L. Morrow, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WEICK and BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judges, and NIXON, District Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Michael J. Hand, a District Judge in the 47th Judicial District of the State of Michigan, appeals from the District Court's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs-appellees WXYZ, Inc. and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. The court held that a Michigan statute and a suppression order issued by Judge Hand pursuant to that statute violated the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States...

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