FIRST AMERICAN TITLE CO. v. DEVAUGH

No. 06-1171.

480 F.3d 438 (2007)

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, a California Corporation; Transnation Title Insurance Company, an Arizona Corporation; Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, a Virginia Corporation; and Chicago Title Insurance Company, a Missouri Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Melissa R. DEVAUGH, in her capacity as the Lapeer County Register of Deeds; Fran Fuller, in her capacity as the Eaton County Register of Deeds; Mildred Dodak, in her capacity as the Saginaw County Register of Deeds; Virginia McLaren, in her capacity as the Tuscola County Register of Deeds; and Linda M. Landheer, in her capacity as the Newaygo County Register of Deeds, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: February 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David A. Ettinger, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellants. Bonnie G. Toskey, Cohl, Stoker, Toskey & McGlinchey, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: David A. Ettinger, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellants. Bonnie G. Toskey, Cohl, Stoker, Toskey & McGlinchey, Lansing, Michigan, Marcia L. Howe, Johnson, Rosati, LaBarge, Aseltyne & Field, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Christina M. Grossi, Gilbert, Smith & Borrello, Saginaw, Michigan, for Appellees.

Before: BATCHELDER and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges; PHILLIPS, District Judge.


OPINION

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants are four title insurance companies that do business in Michigan: First American Title Company (a subsidiary of First American Corporation), Transnation Title Insurance Company (a subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.), Chicago Title Insurance Company (a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, Inc.), and Lawyers Title Insurance Company (a subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc...

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