DETROIT NEWS, INC. v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 141186.

204 Mich. App. 720 (1994)

516 N.W.2d 151

THE DETROIT NEWS, INC v. CITY OF DETROIT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 2, 1994, at 9:25 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butzel Long (by James E. Stewart and Leonard M. Niehoff), for the plaintiff.

Donald Pailen, Corporation Counsel, Harnetha Jarrett, Supervising Assistant Corporation Counsel, and William M. Wolfson, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendant.

Before: WHITE, P.J., and BRENNAN and G.B. FORD, JJ.


WHITE, P.J.

Plaintiff, The Detroit News, Inc., appeals as of right the denial of its motion for production of documents and the dismissal of its claim under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

On November 29, 1989, the News filed an FOIA request seeking "records of all telephone calls to and from the office of Mayor Coleman A. Young and to and from Manoogian...

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