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IN RE CONTEMPT OF DOUGHERTY

Docket Nos. 77337, 77338, (Calendar No. 13).

429 Mich. 81 (1987)

413 N.W.2d 392

In re CONTEMPT OF DOUGHERTY WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION v. SMITH WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION v. SCHOONOVER-HIGGINS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 6, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keywell & Rosenfeld (by Dawn L. Phillips and Jeffrey C. Kauffman) for the plaintiff.

Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider & Simpson (by Michael L. Pitt), Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by William H. Goodman and Ernest Goodman), Mogill, Posner, Cohen & Weiss (by Kenneth M. Mogill and F. Randall Karfonta), Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz (by Barbara A. Patek), and Deborah A. Choly for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C. (by John P. Jacobs), for the Peace and Justice Commission of the Diocese of Lansing and the Peace and Justice Committee of St. Joan of Arc Parish.

Stark & Gordon (by Clark D. Cunningham) and Bell & Associates, P.C. (by Glen R. Warn), for Bishops Judith Craig, H. Coleman McGehee, and Thomas J. Gumbleton.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Justin C. Ravitz), for the Detroit Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

CAVANAGH, J.

INTRODUCTION

Appellants in these consolidated cases challenge the validity of two civil contempt orders. The circuit judge found appellants in civil contempt of court for violating a June 29, 1983, permanent injunction enjoining them from trespassing on, and obstructing ingress or egress to, Williams International Corporation's plant at Walled Lake, Michigan.1 The appellants were ordered incarcerated

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