WHITMAN v. MERCY-MEMORIAL HOSP.

Docket No. 64459.

128 Mich. App. 155 (1983)

339 N.W.2d 730

WHITMAN v. MERCY-MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence P. Bronson, for plaintiffs.

Kitch, Suhrheinrich, Smith, Saurbier & Drutchas, P.C. (by Gregory G. Drutchas and Anthony A. Muraski), for defendant.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Michael A. Lockman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and BRONSON and HOOD, JJ.


HOOD, J.

Plaintiffs appeal from a denial by the trial court of an injunction which would have ordered defendant hospital to allow the presence of plaintiff Coch in the delivery room during the birth of his and plaintiff Karen Whitman's child. Since the relief sought has been rendered moot by the subsequent birth of the child, a review of the facts and the proceedings is instructive as to why the Court chooses to deal with the issue presented.

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