BISIO v. CITY OF VILLAGE OF CLARKSTON

No. 158240 Calendar No. 4.

954 N.W.2d 95 (2020)

506 Mich. 37

Susan BISIO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF the VILLAGE OF CLARKSTON, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kemp Klein Law Firm, Troy (by Richard Bisio ,) for Susan Bisio.

O'Connor, DeGrazia , Tamm & O'Connor, PC, Bloomfield Hills (by Julie McCann O'Connor , and James E. Tamm ,) for the City of the Village of Clarkston.

Butzel Long, PC, Bloomfield Hills (by Robin Luce Herrmann , and Joseph E. Richotte ,) for the Michigan Press Association; the Michigan Association of Broadcasters; the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists; The New York Times Company; The Detroit News; The Detroit Free Press; the E.W. Scripps Company; New World Communications of Detroit, Inc., on behalf of its television station WJBK-FOX 2 Detroit; Nexstar Media Group, Inc.; Zillow Group, Inc.; the Better Business Bureau of Eastern Michigan; Meredith Corporation; and the Michigan Coalition on Open Government, amici curiae

Herschel P. Fink , Southfield, for The Detroit Free Press, amicus curiae.

Honigman, LLP, Ann Arbor , (by James E. Stewart , and Leonard M. Niehoff ,) for The Detroit News, amicus curiae.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Detroit (by Irene Bruce Hathaway , and Steven D. Mann ,) for the Michigan Municipal League and the Michigan Townships Association, amici curiae.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH


OPINION

This case concerns the definition of "public record" set forth in MCL 15.232(i) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq. This definition provides that "public record," as used within the act, means "a writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession...

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