LANSING SCHOOLS EDUC. ASS'N v. LANSING BD.

Docket No. 138401. Calendar No. 3.

792 N.W.2d 686 (2010)

487 Mich. 349

LANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, MEA/NEA, Cathy Stachwick, Penny Filonczuk, Elizabeth Namie, and Ellen Wheeler, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LANSING BOARD OF EDUCATION and Lansing School District, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 31, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White, Schneider, Young & Chiodini, P.C. (by Michael M. Shoudy , Okemos, and Dena Lampinen Lorenz ), for plaintiffs.

Thrun Law Firm, P.C. (by Margaret M. Hackett ), East Lansing, for defendants.

Neil S. Kagan , for amicus curiae National Wildlife Federation.

Clark Hill PLC (by David D. Grande-Cassell and Kristin B. Bellar ), Lansing, for amicus curiae Michigan Manufacturers Association.

Brad A. Banasik , for amicus curiae Michigan Association of School Boards.


Opinion

CAVANAGH, J.

The issue in this case is whether teachers have standing to sue the school board for failing to comply with its statutory duty to expel students that have allegedly physically assaulted those teachers. We hold that the standing doctrine adopted in Lee v. Macomb Co. Bd. of Comm'rs, 464 Mich. 726, 629 N.W.2d 900 (2001), and extended in later cases, such...

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