ROSS v. CONSUMERS POWER

Docket Nos. 64241, 68861, 68885, 69672, 70177, 70246, 70456, 70598, 71266. (Calendar Nos. 1-9).

420 Mich. 567 (1984)

363 N.W.2d 641

ROSS v. CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY WILLIS v. NIENOW WILLIS v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES SIENER v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH ROCCO v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH REGULSKI v. MURPHY TREZZI v. DETROIT DISAPPEARING LAKES ASSOCIATION v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ZAVALA v. ZINSER

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1984.

Released January 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.E. Wisner and Dennis L. Viglione for Consumers Power.

Parker, Adams, Mazur & Matyjaszek, P.C. (by James D. Adams), for John Saines Project 1 Drainage District.

Amici Curiae in Ross:

Donald A. Pailen, Corporation Counsel, and William Dietrich, William L. Woodard, and Abigail Elias, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the City of Detroit.

Bauckham, Reed, Lang, Schaefer & Travis, P.C. (by Robert F. Travis), for Michigan Townships Association.

Robert H. Fredericks, II, for the Oakland County Drain Commissioner and the Michigan Association of County Drain Commissioners.

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C. (by Joseph V. Walker, John P. Jacobs, and Christine D. Oldani), for the State Bar of Michigan, Public Corporation Law Section.

Baxter & Hammond (by Stephen D. Turner and Robert S. Lipak) for Mary O. Willis.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and William K. Basinger and Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendants Nienow, Knox, and the Department of Social Services and Alan F. Hoffman and Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Attorneys General for the Department of Mental Health, Department of Social Services, and Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric Hospital and Theodore E. Hughes and Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of Natural Resources.

Cholette, Perkins & Buchanan (by Edward D. Wells) for defendant Hunt.

Amici Curiae in Willis:

Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by William H. Goodman), Mogill, Posner, Cohen & Weiss (by Kenneth M. Mogill and Marjory B. Cohen), Bush, Bennett & Magid, P.C. (by Neal Bush and Jody I. Lewitter), Richard M. Goodman, P.C. (by Susan E. Lister), and Harper, Hurwitz, LaBelle & Stacey (by Julie H. Hurwitz) for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker (by Eugene Driker and Morley Witus) for the City of Troy.

Grant & Busch (by Gary M. Busch) for Russell Siener, Jr.

Charfoos, Christensen, Gilbert & Archer, P.C. (by Adrienne G. Southgate), for James L. Rocco.

Harry D. Hirsch, Jr., and E.R. Whinham, of counsel, for James Regulski.

Garan, Lucow, Miller, Seward, Cooper & Becker, P.C. (by Millard Becker, Jr., and Rosalind H. Rochkind), for defendants Murphy, Hansen, and the Wayne-Westland School District.

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick (by Steven G. Silverman) for Elvera Trezzi.

Marston, Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin & O'Hare, P.C. (by Elizabeth J. Larin), for Disappearing Lakes Association and others.

Howard Schwartz (Gagleard, Addis, Imbrunone & Gagleard, by Michael A. Gagleard, of counsel) for plaintiffs Zavala.


ON REHEARING

Released January 22, 1985. Rehearing denied in Zavala, 421 Mich. 1202.

PER CURIAM:

These nine cases require us to reexamine the extent of immunity from tort liability which the governmental tort liability act, MCL 691.1401 et seq.; MSA 3.996(101) et seq., and the common law provide to the state and its agencies, non-sovereign governmental agencies, and the officers, agents, and...

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