Remick v. Burge, Docket No. 11859
Decision Date | 24 March 1972 |
Docket Number | Docket No. 11859,No. 2,2 |
Citation | 39 Mich.App. 444,197 N.W.2d 868 |
Parties | , 5 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 31, 5 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7954 Leonard R. REMICK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald A. BURGE, Defendant-Appellee |
Court | Court of Appeal of Michigan — District of US |
Raymond W. Krolikowski, Krolikowski & Remick, Detroit, for plaintiff-appellant.
Leo A. Farhat, Lansing, William F. Bledsoe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michigan Civil Rights Comm., Detroit, for defendant-appellee.
Before DANHOF, P.J., and T. M. BURNS and O'HARA, * JJ.
The Const.1963, art. 5, § 29, provides Inter alia:
Plaintiff-appellant sought the issuance of a complaint against his employer on the ground that his employment was discriminatorily terminated. The discrimination appellant asserted was age.
The commission accepted his petition for a complaint. On the merits it refused to issue it. A referee hearing was held and the referee affirmed the commission action. The circuit court, upon the prescribed De novo hearing, affirmed on the ground that the holding sought to be reviewed was supported by 'competent material and substantial evidence.' The wording was taken verbatim from Const.1963, art. 6, § 28, covering the final decisions, rulings, or orders of 'any administrative officer or agency existing under the constitution or by law, which are judicial or quasi-judicial.'
We recently spoke to the standard to be applied in a De novo review of final orders of this commission. See Burrell v. Annapolis Hospital, 36 Mich.App. 537, 193 N.W.2d 900 (1971).
The trial judge very likely did not have this opinion available at the time of his review. However, after having carefully examined the whole record, we conclude that the result he reached would be identical...
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