AMI v. COMM. HEALTH DEPT.

Docket Nos. 202942, 206237, 203133.

588 N.W.2d 133 (1998)

231 Mich. App. 647

ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL OF MICHIGAN, a/k/a AMI, Dorothy H., L., N., D.F., Barbara B., individually and as Next Friend for her minor son, B., Karen R., individually and as Next Friend for her minor son, B.R., Donna W., individually and as Next Friend for her minor son, I.W., K.S., individually and as Next Friend for her minor son, A., Rickie J., individually and as Next Friend for her minor son, J.B., George White, Beverly Coleman, Mary Cavanagh, John Clemons, Sylvester Austin, and Darletha Daniels, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Barry K., Gary S., Sidney M., Paul M., John S., and Brian M., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE of Michigan, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH, Director of Department of Community Health, Executive Director of the Division of Behavioral Health of the Department of Community Health, Director of Administrative Services of the Department of Community Health, and Director of the Bureau of Hospitals And Centers of the Department of Community Health, Defendants-Appellants. Michigan Council 25, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Department of Community Health, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 25, 1998, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication December 18, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller Cohen, P.L.C. (by Bruce A. Miller, Gail M. Wilson, and Heidi A. Eichmann J.Detroit, Michigan Legal Services (by Susan K McParland), Detroit, and Steinberg, O'Connor & Burns, P.L.L.C. (by Doyle O'Connor), Detroit, for the plaintiffs in Docket No. 202942.

Miller Cohen, P.L.C. (by Bruce A. Miller and Ann L. Miller), Detroit, Michigan Legal Services (by Susan K. McParland), Detroit, and Steinberg, O'Connor & Burns, P.L.L.C, Detroit, for the plaintiffs in Docket No. 206237.

Miller Cohen, P.L.C. (by Bruce A. Miller and Michael J. Granzeier), Detroit, for the plaintiff in Docket No. 203133. Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. (by Kathleen N. Harris and Mark A. Cody), Livonia, Lansing and Center for Public Representation (by Robert D. Fleischner), Northampton, MA, for the intervening plaintiffs in Docket Nos. 202942, 206237.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Peter L. Trezise and Alan F. Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants in Docket Nos. 202942, 206237.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Peter L. Trezise, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant in Docket No. 203133.

Silver & Associates (by Kenneth F. Silver), Amicus curiae, Southfield, for the Michigan Psychiatric Society.

Before: WAHLS, P.J., and HOLBROOK, JR., and FITZGERALD, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

In Docket No. 203133 (the Ingham case), defendant, the Michigan Department of Community Health, appeals as of right an injunction entered by the Ingham Circuit Court on April 21, 1997, to bar defendant from laying off or transferring any unionrepresented employees at the following mental health facilities: Clinton Valley Center (CVC), Detroit Psychiatric Institute (DPI), and the Pheasant Ridge Center of the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital (Pheasant Ridge...

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