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DAY v. FOOTE MEMORIAL HOSP.

Docket No. 61821, (Calendar No. 8).

412 Mich. 698 (1982)

316 N.W.2d 712

DAY v. W A FOOTE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosenburg, Stanton, Bullen & Nelson, P.C. (by Terry J. Klaasen), for plaintiff.

Smith, Haughey, Rice & Roegge (by John W. Raven) for defendants.

LEVIN, J.

We granted leave to appeal to consider whether the conclusive presumption of a widow's dependency on her husband for financial support set forth in the Worker's Disability Compensation Act is an unconstitutional gender-based discrimination because there is no similar presumption for widowers.

After oral argument in this Court, the United States Supreme Court decided Wengler v Druggists Mutual Ins Co, 446 U.S. 142

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