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COOLEY LAW SCHOOL v. DOE 1

Docket No. 307426.

833 N.W.2d 331 (2013)

300 Mich. App. 245

THOMAS M. COOLEY LAW SCHOOL, v. DOE 1.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided April 4, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Canfield , Paddock and Stone, PLC (by Michael P. Coakley , Detroit and Paul D. Hudson , Kalamazoo), for Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Barbara Harvey , John T. Hermann , Berkley, and Paul Alan Levy for John Doe 1.

Boyle Burdett , Grosse Pointe Park (by H. William Burdett, Jr. ) and Daniel S. Korobkin , Michael J. Steinberg , and Kary L. Moss , Detroit for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan.

Butzel Long (by Robin Luce Herrmann , Bloomfield Hills, Joseph E. Richotte , Detroit, Jonathan F. Jorissen , Bloomfield Hills, and Jennifer A. Dukarski , Ann Arbor ) for Amici Curiae Michigan Press Association, Gannett Co., Inc., Scripps Media, Inc., The Detroit News, The Macomb Daily, and The Rail.

Before: WHITBECK, P.J., and METER and BECKERING, JJ.

Opinion of the Court

WHITBECK, P.J.

This appeal concerns the complicated interplay between First Amendment protections of the freedom of speech and the Michigan Court Rules concerning discovery. Plaintiff, Thomas M. Cooley Law School (Cooley), filed a complaint in the Ingham Circuit Court against defendant John Doe 1 (Doe 1) and others, alleging, in part, defamation arising from statements that Doe 1 made, under a pseudonym, on a website that criticized...

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