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LONG v. CHELSEA COMMUNITY HOSP.

Docket No. 182219.

557 N.W.2d 157 (1996)

219 Mich. App. 578

Reuel S. LONG, M.D., and Judith A. Long, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHELSEA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, John R.C. Wheeler, Ph.D., Susan M. Cischke, Frank X. Colligan, M.D., C. Wendell Dunbar, William C. Emhiser, John W. Merkel, Charles A. Skelton, Sally A. Stommen, D.D.S., Willard H. Johnson, Michael W. Smith, M.D., and F.S. Van Reesema, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided October 25, 1996, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication January 2, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian by Richard A. Soble and Elizabeth A. Stafford, Detroit, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. by Susan Healy Zitterman and Brian R. Garves, Detroit, for defendants-appellees.

Before YOUNG, P.J., and CORRIGAN and M.J. CALLAHAN, JJ.

CORRIGAN, Judge.

In this action alleging that a private hospital revoked medical staff privileges with malice, plaintiffs appeal by right the order granting defendants' motion for summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(8) and (C)(10). This case raises an issue of first impression: whether M.C.L. § 331.531; M.S.A. § 14.57(21) creates a private cause of action for malice. Because no such cause of action exists,...

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