PHINNEY v. VERBRUGGE

Docket Nos. 175485, 175857 and 176940.

564 N.W.2d 532 (1997)

222 Mich. App. 513

Carolyn PHINNEY, Plaintiff/Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Lois Verbrugge and Richard Adelman, Defendants/Cross-Appellees, and Marion PERLMUTTER, Defendant/Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Carolyn PHINNEY, Plaintiff/Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Richard ADELMAN, Defendant/Appellant/Cross-Appellee, and Lois Verbrugge and Marion Perlmutter, Defendants. Carolyn PHINNEY, Plaintiff/Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOARD OF REGENTS, Defendant/Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided April 4, 1997, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication June 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Green & Green by Philip Green (Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. by Patrick Burkett, Southfield, of counsel), Ann Arbor, for Carolyn Phinney.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling, L.L.P. by Jerold Lax, Ann Arbor, for Marion Perlmutter.

Butzel Long by Diane M. Soubly and James S. Rosenfeld, Birmingham, for Lois Verbrugge, Richard Adelman, and University of Michigan Board of Regents.

Before WAHLS, P.J., and MURPHY and C.D. CORWIN, JJ.


WAHLS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Marion Perlmutter hired plaintiff, Carolyn Phinney, as a senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology (IOG) at the University of Michigan. At the time, Perlmutter was a research scientist at the IOG, and defendant Richard Adelman was the Director of the Institute. Plaintiff accused Perlmutter of stealing her research. Adelman appointed...

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