SWICKARD v. WAYNE MED. EXAMINER

Docket No. 89602, (Calendar No. 6).

438 Mich. 536 (1991)

475 N.W.2d 304

SWICKARD v. WAYNE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (by Herschel P. Fink and Sandra L. Jasinski) for the plaintiff.

Saul A. Green, Wayne County Corporation Counsel, and Ellen E. Mason, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendant.

Bell & Gardner, P.C. (by Samuel C. Gardner, Frank D. James, and Athina T. Siringas), for the intervenor.


RILEY, J.

In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether an autopsy report and toxicology test results regarding the late Chief Judge of the 36th District Court, Longworth Quinn, Jr., are properly exempt from disclosure under the state's Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq. We are further asked to determine whether the trial court erred in refusing defendant's request for an evidentiary hearing. We hold that defendant...

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