Billie Michelle ROSE, Plaintiff, and
County of Calhoun, Appellant,
v.
Robert John STOKELY, Defendant-Appellee.
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Submitted May 28, 2003, at Lansing.
Decided August 28, 2003, at 9:10 a.m.
Released for Publication October 29, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John Hallacy, Prosecuting Attorney, and Niels M. Magnusson III, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Battle Creek, for Billie M. Rose.
Robison Law Office, P.C. (by Mark J. Robison and Charles A. Robison), Albion, for Robert J. Stokely.
Karen S. Sendelbach, Judith Curtis, Kent Weichmann, and Charlotte Allen, Ann Arbor, for amici curiae the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.
Stuart Law Offices (by Mark F. Stuart) and Scott Sussman, Marshall; Madison, Wisconsin, for amici curiae the Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy.
Before: WHITBECK, C.J., and RICHARD ALLEN GRIFFIN, NEFF, WHITE, MARKEY, METER, and COOPER, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.
WHITBECK, C.J.
This case involves an equal protection challenge, on gender-based grounds, to the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Paternity Act1 that allocate the "confinement expenses" of a child born out of wedlock entirely to the father of that child. The circuit court did not directly address the constitutional challenge, relying primarily on the decision of this Court in ...
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