HAYNES v. NESHEWAT

Docket No. 129206 (Calendar No. 4).

729 N.W.2d 488 (2007)

477 Mich. 29

Gregory HAYNES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael J. NESHEWAT, Robert J. Murray, and Brian Peltz, Defendants, and Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. and Oakwood Hospital-Seaway Center, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 28, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos E. Williams, P.C. (by Amos E. Williams), Detroit, for the plaintiff.

Dykema Gossett, P.L.L.C. (by Willaim M. Thacker and Claire S. Harrison), Ann Arbor, for the defendants.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Genevieve Dwaihy Tusa, Assistant Attorney General, Detroit, for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and the Department of Civil Rights, amici curiae.


MARILYN KELLY, J.

We granted leave to appeal to determine whether plaintiff has stated a cause of action under MCL 37.2302, the public accommodations provision of the Civil Rights Act (CRA). This case arose when plaintiff, Dr. Gregory Haynes, an African-American physician with staff privileges at Oakwood Hospital-Seaway Center, alleged that defendants treated him differently than similarly situated white physicians on the basis of his race. Plaintiff claims that a...

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