1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. Mich.
  4. 425 Mich.
  5. 425 Mich. 173 (1986)
 

DEPT. OF CIVIL RIGHTS EX REL. FORTON v. WATERFORD TWP. DEPT.

Docket No. 71462, (Calendar No. 21).

425 Mich. 173 (1986)

387 N.W.2d 821

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS ex rel FORTON v. WATERFORD TOWNSHIP DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 29, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Michael A. Lockman, Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiff.

Peter J. Donlin for the defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Conlin & Sikorski (by Edmund J. Sikorski, Jr.) for Michigan High School Athletic Association, Inc.

BRICKLEY, J.

This lawsuit comes to us on the question whether the defendant township can operate a basketball program for elementary students that requires separate gender-based leagues playing at different times of the year, without violating the Civil Rights Act, MCL 37.2302; MSA 3.548(302) (hereinafter § 302). In order to answer that question, it is necessary first to decide whether this statute prescribes a standard prohibiting any rulemaking by the state...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases