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ROHDE v. ANN ARBOR PUB. SCHOOLS

Docket No. 253565.

698 N.W.2d 402 (2005)

265 Mich. App. 702

Teri ROHDE, Brendon Quilter, Mary Quilter, Walter Mackey, Barbara Mackey, Gary Gibson, Ellen Gibson, Ted Jungkuntz, Loise Jungkuntz, David Sponseller, Mary Sponseller, Mike Gladieux, Martha Gladieux, Helen Rysse, Terry Trombley, John Williams, and Therese Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ANN ARBOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS a/k/a Public Schools of the City of Ann Arbor, Board of Education for Ann Arbor Public Schools, President of the Board of Education for Ann Arbor Public Schools, and Treasurer of the Board of Education for Ann Arbor Public Schools, Defendants-Appellees, and Ann Arbor Education Association, MEA/NEA, Intervening Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided April 14, 2005, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for publication May 26, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas More Law Center (by Patrick T. Gillen), Ann Arbor, for the plaintiffs.

Dykema Gossett PLLC (by Seth M. Lloyd, James M. Cameron, Jr., Laura Sagolla, and Jill M. Wheaton), Ann Arbor, for the Ann Arbor Public Schools, the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education, and the president and treasurer of the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education.

Arthur R. Przybylowicz and Theresa J. Alderman, East Lansing, for the Ann Arbor Education Association, MEA/NEA.

Kara J. Jennings, Jay D. Kaplan, Michael J. Steinberg, and Kary L. Moss, Detroit, for the Washtenaw County Medical Society, the American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Stephen K. Postema, City Attorney, Ann Arbor, for the city of Ann Arbor.

Butzel Long, P.C. (by Leonard M. Niehoff, Dana M. Millikin, and Gregory N. Blase), Ann Arbor, for the Regents of the University of Michigan and the Board of Governors of Wayne State University.

Before: CAVANAGH, P.J., and JANSEN and GAGE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs appeal as of right the opinion and order granting defendants summary disposition. We affirm.

Plaintiffs are individual taxpayers who live in the Ann Arbor school district. Defendants provide medical benefits to certain same-sex partners of Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) employees, but these benefits do not extend to unmarried heterosexual partners of AAPS employees. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting the...

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