Kurzawa v. Mueller
Decision Date | 30 August 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 82-60076.,82-60076. |
Citation | 545 F. Supp. 1254 |
Parties | John C. KURZAWA, Sr., and Frances Kurzawa, Individually and as Next Friends of John C. Kurzawa, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. Joan MUELLER; Roger Henricks; Clarke F. Baldwin; Purza Onate, M.D.; Kay Tooley, Ph.D.; Angela Wallenbrock, M.D.; and John Dempsey, Director, Michigan Department of Social Services, Defendants. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Western District of Michigan |
William H. Goodman, Elizabeth Gleicher, Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.
Brian Einhorn, Southfield, Mich., Erica Weiss Marsden, Lansing, Mich., William J. Lynch and Robert P. Siemion, Gerald V. Padilla, Detroit, Mich., for defendants.
This case is before the court on defendant Wallenbrock's Motion for Summary Judgment, and defendants Mueller, Henricks and Dempsey's Motion to Dismiss. For the reasons that follow, the motions are granted in part and denied in part.
This civil rights action was commenced in this court following extended litigation in the Lenawee County Probate and Circuit Courts, and in the Michigan Court of Appeals. The court adopts the following statement of facts from the decision in In Re Kurzawa, 95 Mich.App. 346, 290 N.W.2d 431 (1980). The particulars in which the allegations of the complaint differ from the Court of Appeals' statement of facts are explained in footnotes.
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