BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. U. OF M. BD. OF REGENTS

Docket Nos. 93246, 93247, (Calendar No. 5).

444 Mich. 211 (1993)

507 N.W.2d 422

BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOARD OF REGENTS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dykema, Gossett (by Jonathan D. Rowe and Kathleen D. Hunt) and Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (by Herschel P. Fink and Michael A. Gruskin) for the plaintiffs.

Hooper, Hathaway, Price, Beuche & Wallace (by Roderick K. Daane) for the defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Mark Brewer (Paul Denenfeld, of counsel), for Common Cause in Michigan and ACLU Fund of Michigan.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by Charles A. Duerr, Jr., and Richard A. Jones) for the Board of Control of Northern Michigan University, and on behalf of the following attorneys, Mary Elizabeth Kurz, for the Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Daniel J. Bernard, for the Board of Trustees of Wayne State University, Kenneth A. McKanders, for the Board of Regents of Eastern Michigan University, and Currie & Kendall, P.C. (by William C. Collins), for the Board of Control of Saginaw Valley State University.

Phillips & Russell (by Dawn L. Phillips) for the Michigan Press Association.

Kasiborski, Ronayne & Flaska (by John J. Ronayne, III) (Jane E. Kirtley, Rebecca Daugherty, and Eric Robinson, of counsel), for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and (Mark Goodman, of counsel), for the Student Press Law Center.


MALLETT, J.

The dispositive issues in this case are whether the presidential selection procedure adopted by the University of Michigan Board of Regents violated the Open Meetings Act, MCL 15.261 et seq.; MSA 4.1800(11) et seq., or the Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq.

We find that defendant violated the OMA and the FOIA. Therefore, we affirm in part and reverse in part the Court of Appeals decision...

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