NEAL v. JAMES

Docket No. 226352.

651 N.W.2d 181 (2002)

252 Mich. App. 12

Shaun NEAL, Norris Goudy, Quincy Evans, Larry Polk, Thomas Randolph III, Chie Handy, and Clarese Studevant-Stanton, and all similarly situated African-American applicants and employees of Defendant City of Detroit Law Department, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Phyllis A. JAMES, Thomas Walters, Terri L. Renshaw, John A. Schapka, Stuart Trager, Nancy Ninowski, Diane McGuire, Gary Dent, and City of Detroit Law Department, Defendants-Appellants, and John Bailey and John Quinn, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 22, 2002.

Approved for Publication June 21, 2002 at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication September 24, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Jarrett, Melissa Z. El, Alice B. Jennings, James W. McGinnis, and Regina D. Jemison, Detroit, for plaintiffs.

Riley, Roumell & Connolly by Michael J. Connolly and Clifford J. Scharman, Detroit, for defendants.

Before: NEFF, P.J., and FITZGERALD and TALBOT, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendants, who include supervisors and the appointed corporation counsel for the city of Detroit's legal department, appeal by leave granted the trial court's order granting plaintiffs' motion to certify a class composed of all African-American individuals who either held or sought employment with the city of Detroit's law department from 1994 to 1999, for positions that required a law school education, including...

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