MOSES, INC. v. SEMCOG

Docket No. 258749.

716 N.W.2d 278 (2006)

270 Mich. App. 401

MOSES, INC; Transportation Riders United, Inc; City of Ferndale, Lawrence Birchfield, Phyllis Williamson, Anthony Fillipis, Marcia Yakes, and Richard Bernstein, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, a/k/a/ SEMCOG, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 23, 2006, at 9:20 a.m.

Released for Publication May 24, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michigan Legal Services, Inc. (by Marilyn Mullane, Gary A. Benjamin, and Charles D. Brown), and Richard Bernstein, Detroit, Farmington Hills, for the plaintiffs.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Jerome R. Watson and Christopher M. Trebilcock), Detroit, for the defendant.

Before: COOPER, P.J., and JANSEN and MARKEY, JJ.


MARKEY, J.

Plaintiffs appeal by right the trial court's order granting defendant's motion for summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(8) and denying plaintiffs' motion for partial summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(10). We hold that all plaintiffs lack standing to assert the political questions they raise in their complaint. To the extent that the individual plaintiffs have standing to allege a violation of their civil rights or the constitutional guarantee of...

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