DETROIT NEWS, INC. v. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 231260.

651 N.W.2d 127 (2002)

252 Mich. App. 59

The DETROIT NEWS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF DETROIT and Board of Trustees for Policemen and Firemen Retirement System of the City of Detroit, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 25, 2002, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication September 24, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butzel Long (by James E. Stewart, Laurie J. Michelson, and Sarah K. Fisher), Detroit, for the plaintiff.

Timmis & Inman, L.L.P. (by Henry J. Brennan, III, Michael F. Wais, and Michael J. Sheehan), Detroit, for the defendants.

Before: WHITBECK, C.J., and O'OCENT and METER, JJ.


O'CONNELL, J.

Defendants appeal as of right from the trial court's November 9, 2000, order granting summary disposition in favor of plaintiff in this action brought pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), M.C.L. § 15.231 et seq. We vacate and remand.

Plaintiff commenced the present action in the Wayne Circuit Court on March 15, 2000, alleging that defendants violated the FOIA by failing to...

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