YPSILANTI TWP. v. GMC

Docket No. 161245.

201 Mich. App. 128 (1993)

506 N.W.2d 556

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 3, 1993, at 9:00 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLain & Winters (by Wm. Douglas Winters), for the Charter Township of Ypsilanti.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Russell E. Prins and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Michigan.

Harris, Guenzel, Meier & Nichols, P.C. (by Robert E. Guenzel), for the County of Washtenaw.

Mayer, Brown & Platt (by Stephen M. Shapiro, Kenneth S. Geller, James D. Holzhauer, Charles Rothfeld, and Michael A. Vatis), Dykema Gossett (by Donald S. Young), and Lee A. Schutzman, for General Motors Corporation.

Amici Curiae:

Bauckham, Sparks, Rolfe & Thomsen, P.C. (by John H. Bauckham and Lynda E. Thomsen), for the Michigan Townships Association.

Clark, Klein & Beaumont (by Dwight H. Vincent, J. Walker Henry, Nancy J. Gordon, and Robert J. McClory), for the Michigan Manufacturers Association.

Larry P. Weinberg and Robert D. Lenhard, for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.

Hoekenga and Farrell, P.C. (by Daniel J. Hoekenga), for the Michigan Education Association.

V. Mark Slywynsky, for the American Automobile Manufacturers Association and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.

Barbara Harvey, Fran Ansley, and Healy, Davidson & Hornack (by Joseph S. Hornack), for the Federation for Industrial Retention & Renewal.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Barbara J. Brown, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Jordan Rossen, Betsey A. Engel, Julie H. Hurwitz, and Mark Granzotto, for the International Union, UAW; Local 1776, UAW; Phillip J. Donato; Charles D. Evans; and Flora Gibson.

Before: REILLY, P.J., and SAWYER and P.J. CLULO, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals from a February 9, 1993, order of the Washtenaw Circuit Court that enjoins defendant "from transferring the production of its Caprice sedan, and Buick and Cadillac [sic, Chevrolet] station wagons, from the Willow Run plant to any other facility." We reverse.

Defendant has operated two plants in Ypsilanti for a number of years. The Hydra-Matic plant employs approximately 9,000 workers...

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