DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC. v. DEPT. OF CON. & INDUS. SERVS.

Docket No. 229864.

631 N.W.2d 769 (2001)

246 Mich. App. 311

DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER & INDUSTRY SERVICES, Office of Financial and Insurance Services, Division of Insurance, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 5, 2001, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication August 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, (by Herschel P. Fink and Cynthia G. Thomas), Detroit, for the plaintiff.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Thomas Quasarano, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Before KIRSTEN FRANK KELLY, P.J., and O'CONNELL and COOPER, JJ.


O'CONNELL, J.

In this action brought pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), M.C.L. § 15.231 et seq., plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court's grant of summary disposition to defendant. We affirm.

On May 5, 2000, plaintiff sent an FOIA request to defendant, seeking the opportunity to review all consumer complaints filed with defendant against property insurers in 1999. The letter specified that plaintiff was seeking "all...

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