Mitan v. Neiman Marcus
Citation | 613 N.W.2d 415,240 Mich App 679 |
Decision Date | 11 July 2000 |
Docket Number | Docket No. 212002. |
Parties | Lynette MITAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEIMAN MARCUS and Jill Blake, Defendants-Appellees. |
Court | Court of Appeal of Michigan (US) |
Jayne F. Cucchiara, Southfield, for the plaintiff.
Vlcko, Lane, Payne & Broder, P.C. (by Andrew J. Broder), Bingham Farms, for the defendants.
Before SMOLENSKI, P.J. and WHITBECK and ZAHRA, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from a circuit court order granting defendants' motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) and dismissing her claim for retaliatory discharge under the Michigan Handicappers' Civil Rights Act (HCRA), M.C.L. § 37.1602(a); MSA 3.550(602)(a).1 We affirm. The trial court's ruling on a motion for summary disposition is reviewed de novo. Pinckney Community Schools v. Continental Casualty Co., 213 Mich.App. 521, 525, 540 N.W.2d 748 (1995).
A motion under MCR 2.116(C)(10) tests the factual sufficiency of the complaint. In evaluating a motion for summary disposition brought under this subsection, a trial court considers affidavits, pleadings, depositions, admissions, and other evidence submitted by the parties, MCR 2.116(G)(5), in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion. Where the proffered evidence fails to establish a genuine issue regarding any material fact, the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. MCR 2.116(C)(10), (G)(4). Quinto v. Cross & Peters Co., 451 Mich. 358, 547 N.W.2d 314 (1996). [Maiden v. Rozwood, 461 Mich. 109, 119-120, 597 N.W.2d 817 (1999).]
In her sole issue on appeal, plaintiff contends that genuine issues of material fact exist that preclude summary disposition of her claim of illegal retaliation under the HCRA, M.C.L. § 37.1602; MSA 3.550(602), which provides in pertinent part:
In construing the nearly identical provision of the Civil Rights Act,2 this Court stated in DeFlaviis v. Lord & Taylor, Inc., 223 Mich.App. 432, 436, 566 N.W.2d 661 (1997):
we conclude that the reasoning set forth in DeFlaviis and McLemore with respect to the retaliation provision of the Civil Rights Act applies with equal force to the retaliation provision of the HCRA.
Here, the evidence showed that plaintiff sent a written complaint to the human resources manager indicating that Jill Blake, her supervisor, had engaged in "job discrimination" because she would not allow plaintiff to participate in a sales promotion. While plaintiff's complaint mentioned that she accomplished numerous sales "during limited hours due to my physical disability," she did not suggest or imply that the alleged job discrimination was related to her disability. She sent a second written complaint indicating that Blake had engaged in "job harassment" because she had disputed whether sales plaintiff had made could be credited toward her total sales for another promotion and had called plaintiff a liar. However, because plaintiff's...
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