DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC. v. FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY

Docket No. 243889.

672 N.W.2d 513 (2003)

258 Mich. App. 544

DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 23, 2003, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication November 26, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and William R. Morris, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Before: JANSEN, P.J., and NEFF and KIRSTEN FRANK KELLY, JJ.


JANSEN, P.J.

Defendant, Family Independence Agency (FIA), appeals by leave granted from an order reversing the decision of the FIA director to deny a request by plaintiff, Detroit Free Press, Inc., for the release of fourteen FIA files. The circuit court concluded that the director abused his discretion in denying plaintiff's request under the Child Protection Law (CPL), M.C.L. § 722.621 et seq. On appeal, defendant...

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