BARBOUR v. DSS

Docket Nos. 98339, 98340, 100278, 100554, 100713.

172 Mich. App. 275 (1988)

431 N.W.2d 482

BARBOUR v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES LUCAS v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES KILGORE v. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE STEWART v. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE LAPIDES v. STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Joseph A. Golden and Patrick Burkett), for Michael Barbour and Hubert Kilgore, III.

Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider & Simpson (by Michael L. Pitt), for Bobbie P. Lucas and Marilyn Lapides.

Lucetta Franco Selecky, for Susan Stewart.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George H. Weller, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services in Docket Nos. 98339, 98340, Department of State Police in Docket No. 100554 and State Judicial Council in Docket No. 100713.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon and Richard P. Gartner, Assistant Attorneys General, for Department of State Police in Docket No. 100278.

Before: BEASLEY, P.J., and SAWYER and T.J. FOLEY, JJ.


BEASLEY, P.J.

In these consolidated cases, we decide whether plaintiffs, with claims against the state under the Civil Rights Act1 and the Michigan Handicappers' Civil Rights Act,2 possess the right to jury trials.

Plaintiff Michael Barbour brought an action against defendant Michigan Department of Social Services under the Civil Rights Act, alleging...

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