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SANCHEZ v. LAGOUDAKIS

Docket Nos. 89528, 89532, (Calendar No. 5).

440 Mich. 496 (1992)

486 N.W.2d 657

SANCHEZ v. LAGOUDAKIS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Platsis for the defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Gay Secor Hardy, Solicitor General, Robert L. Willis, Jr., Dianne Rubin, and Ron D. Robinson, Assistant Attorneys General, for Michigan Civil Rights Commission and Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

David Piontkowsky for Michigan Organization for Human Rights.

LEVIN, J.

Defendant Kostas Lagoudakis operates the Paradise Family Restaurant in Coldwater. In November, 1987, he hired plaintiff Dorene Sanchez as a waitress. Shortly thereafter, a rumor circulated that Sanchez had acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS. It appears that some patrons refused to allow Sanchez to wait on them.

On December 8, 1987, Lagoudakis informed Sanchez that she could not continue to work at...

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