Michigan Immunity Law

<H2> Rhonda Hehrer v. County of Clinton, Michigan, et al.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference civil rights violation wrongful death theory. This case’s tragic facts took place during Joseph Hehrer’s detention at a county jail. After Hehrer showed signs of illness (including vomiting), medical staff repeatedly evaluated him. Yet they failed to uncover that he suffered f... More...

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Alexandria Parrotta v. Island Resort and Casino

Marquette, Michigan, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a wrongful termination theory. lexandria Parrotta sued her employer, the Island Resort and Casino, for allegedly forcing her to resign rather than accommodating her needs as a new mother. But it turns out that the Casino is owned and operated by the Hannahville ndian Community, a federally recognized Indian tribe. So... More...

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Cheyenne Johnson v. Mount Pleasant Public Schools, et al.

Bay City, Michigan civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who claimed that her child's rights were violated. This is a case about a public-school teacher, Jason Russell, who had good reason to believe that a student, X.M., brought a handgun to school; Russell's actions to protect against that threat; and the lawsuit by Cheyenne Johnson, X.M.'s mother, against Russell... More...

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Luis Antonio Martinez, et al. v. Wayne County, Michigan, et al.

Detroit, Michigan personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theories. Luis Martinez Jr. died in February 2021 and the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office (WCMEO) took control of his body. The WCMEO found his next of kin but inexplicably did not contact them. Meanwhile, the family hired a social worker to find out what happened to Luis Jr. In... More...

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Gerald Novak; Adam Wenzel v. William L. Federspiel

Bay City, Michigan personal injury lawyers presented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories claiming hey own fourteen firearmsseized in a criminal investigation that ended years ago. Sheriff William Federspiel refused to turn the firearms over to Novak and Wenzel because he contends they have not proven that they own them. So they sued Federspiel under 42 U.S.C. Â§ 19... More...

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Randy Erickson v. Gogebic County, Michigan, et al.

Marquette, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a excessive force civil rights violation theory. MoreLaw's goal is to help people seeking legal assistance to find the best lawyers available to represent them in any county in the United States. Click the link above to see some lawyers available where this case was tried who might be available to represent ... More...

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George Edward Clark and Kevin Harrington v. Anthony Abdallah and Kevin Smith

Justice Went To Hell in Detroit, Michigan George Edward Clark and Kevin Harrington were wrongfully convicted of a murder that they did not commit. This Â§ 1983 case concerns alleged constitutional violations in the investigation and prosecution of George Clark and Kevin Harrington. Clark and Harrington spent nearly two decades in prison before the Wayne County Prosecution Integrity Unit... More...

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Melissa Williams, et al. v. Fiduciary Services North, Inc., et al.

Traverse City, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff governmental tort claim negligence theories. This case arises out of a series of events that occurred in the years preceding Mardelle's death in May 2022. Plaintiffs filed a lengthy verified complaint in January 2023, followed by an amended verified complaint in February 2023, in which they named as defendants Brenda... More...

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Glorianna Moore v. Oakland County, Michigan, Eric Hix, Daniel Hedrick

Detroit, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories un 42 U.S.C. 1983. When Glorianna Moore refused to show her license to Officer Brian Wilson at a traffic stop, he opened her car door and grabbed her arm. Because Moore started screaming and twisting her body away, Officer Wilson restrained her by holding her arm a... More...

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Lamonte Jackson Gibson; Toriel Dixon v. Reginald Beasley

<h2> Detroit, Michigan civil rights personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who claimed that their civil rights were violated by the Defendant. </h2> <h2>On a Friday night, Lamonte Jackson-Gibson celebrated his birthday with several friends, including his girlfriend, Toriel Dixon. After midnight, the group took the celebration to Detroit's Greektown neighborhood. There, they s... More...

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George Marvaso, et al. v. Richard Sanchez

<h2> Detroit, Michigan 1983 civil rights violation lawyer represented the Plaintiff. </h2> In this 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983 action arising from an arson investigation, Plaintiffs appeal the district court's entry of summary judgment for Michigan State Police lieutenant Richard Sanchez based on qualified immunity. Plaintiffs claim that Sanchez drafted misleading affidavits that resulted... More...

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Alex McNeal v. Foundation Radiology Group, P.C.

Bay city, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on medical malpractice negligence theories. Here are some of the key aspects of Michigan medical malpractice law: Statute of limitations: In Michigan, the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims is two years from the date of the injury, or six months from the date when t... More...

$1 (07-25-2023 - MI)

Danny Lamont Chambers; Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith v. Ronald Sanders; City of Detroit, Michigan

Danny Lamont Chambers and Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith allege that Detective Ronald Sanders and his employer, the City of Detroit, violated their Fourteenth Amendment right to familial integrity by procuring the wrongful conviction and incarceration of their father, Danny Burton. Even assuming that the plaintiffs have identified a substantive right protected by the Due Process Clause, thei... More...

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Mubarez Ahmed v. Ernest Wilson, et al.

Detroit, Michigan civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that they violated his civil rights. In 2002, Plaintiff Mubarez Ahmed was convicted of murdering Lavelle Griffin and LaTanya White in a drive-by shooting. He was sentenced to 30-60 years in prison. In 2018, Ahmed's conviction was revisited by the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit and the Universi... More...

$1 (07-17-2020 - MI)

Joseph Meadows v. City of Walker, Michigan, et al.

Grand Rapids, Michigan civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a 1983 claim of excessive use of force. Joseph Meadows claims that officers used excessive force to detain him one night during a traffic stop. Officer Steve Dumond began pursuing Meadows after he passed Dumond on the highway while traveling nearly ninety miles per hour. During the subsequen... More...

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Peter Hudson v. City of Highland Park, Michigan, Derek Hillman, Makini Jackson

Peter Hudson fought fires for the Highland Park Fire Department for close to thirteen years. During that time, he became a person of faith. For five years, he criticized other firefighters at the station for conduct he thought immoral and harmful to their work, and they responded by criticizing his faith and belittling him in other ways. In 2015, Hudson’s supervisor discovered that he had overre... More...

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Heather Baker v. City of Trenton

<center> <img width="300" Src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/3.jpg"> </center> This case involves a tragedy of good intentions. Shortly before his high school graduation, eighteen-year-old Kyle Baker apparently experimented with LSD. The after-effects of the drug afflicted him for several days, resulting in his having to be removed from class because of behavioral issu... More...

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Alison Patricia Taylor v. City of Saginaw; Tabitha Hoskins

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/baycity.jpg"> </center> The City of Saginaw (the “City”) uses a common parking enforcement practice known as “chalking,” whereby City parking enforcement officers use chalk to mark the tires of parked vehicles to track how long they have been parked. No. 17-2126 Taylor v. City of Saginaw, et al. Page 2 ... More...

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Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas v. Matthew Wayne Minard

<center> <img width="300" Src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/3.jpg"> </center> Fits of rudeness or lack of gratitude may violate the Golden Rule. But that doesn’t make them illegal or for that matter punishable or for that matter grounds for a seizure. > No. 18-2196 Cruise-Gulyas v. Minard Page 2 Officer Matthew Minard pulled over Debra Cruise-Gulyas... More...

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James King v. United States of America

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/FordFBAerial_full_6925649853054192372_1363556674635349295_1475088726118.jpg"> </center> James King (“Plaintiff”) appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment1 for Officers Todd Allen and Douglas Brownback (together “Defendants”) on Plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment claims arising under... More...

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Eduardo Jacobs v. Raymond Alam, David Weinman and Damon Kimbrough

<center> <img width="300" Src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/3.jpg"> </center> Defendant law enforcement officials Raymon Alam, Dave Weinman, and Damon Kimbrough searched for a fugitive in a house in which plaintiff Eduardo Jacobs lived. Following the search, plaintiff returned home from work, and according to the officers, confronted, pointed a gun at, and then shot a... More...

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Lynn Lumbard v. City of Ann Arbor

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/US-CourtOfAppeals-6thCircuit-Seal.png/150px-US-CourtOfAppeals-6thCircuit-Seal.png"> </center> In 2000, the City of Ann Arbor passed an ordinance requiring certain homeowners to undergo structural renovations to their homes to alleviate storm water drainage problems affecting the city and surro... More...

$0 (01-10-2019 - MI)

Shari Guertin v. State of Michigan

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/9.jpg"> </center> This case arises out of the infamous government-created environmental disaster commonly known as the Flint Water Crisis. As a cost-saving measure until a new water authority was to become operational, public officials switched the City of Flint municipal water supply from the Detroit Wa... More...

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Patti Jo Cahoo v. Julie A. McCurtry

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/9.jpg"> </center> Julie McMurtry, Steven Geskey, Shemin Blundell, Dorris Mitchell, Debra Singleton, and Sharon Moffet-Massey (together the “Individual Agency Defendants”) appeal the district court’s decision denying their Motion to Dismiss (“Motion”) based on qualified immunity, in this 42 U.S.... More...

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David Haddad v. Randall Gregg

<center> <h1> Market Your Practice In Ten Counties for $10 A Month <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Ken&l=Morlan&i=28606&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">Cost Effective Affordable Internet Marketing For Your Practice</a> </h1> </center>David Haddad su... More...

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Derrick Bunkley v. City of Detroit, Michigan

In this interlocutory appeal from the denial of the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the defendants appeal several rulings, one of which concerns qualified immunity. We AFFIRM in part and DISMISS in part. I. Detroit Police arrested Derrick Bunkley on a charge of attempted murder, the State of Michigan prosecuted him, and a jury convicted him. But Bunkley was innocent. When the co... More...

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Jena McClellan v. Midwest Machining, Inc.

Plaintiff Jena McClellan brought suit against her former employer to enforce her rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k), and the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d). The district court granted summary judgment for Defendant on the grounds that Plaintiff’s federal claims were barred b... More...

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Melisa Richmond v. Rubab Huq

Plaintiff Melisa Richmond was incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail from December 26, 2012 through February 13, 2013. > No. 16-2560 Richmond v. Huq, et al. Page 2 While in the custody of the Jail, Richmond received treatment for a self-inflicted burn wound on her chest as well as for psychological needs. Richmond contends that she received constitutionally inadequate treatm... More...

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Haskell G. Greer, et al. v. City of Highland Park, Michigan, et al.

Individual defendants (“the officers”) in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 matter appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for judgment on the pleadings based on > No. 17-1281 Greer, et al. v. City of Highland Park, Mich., et al. Page 2 qualified immunity. Because we find that the complaint states a plausible claim that the officers violated the plaintiffs’ clearly esta... More...

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Julie Peffer and Jesse Peffer v. Mike Stephens

This appeal requires us to determine the extent of the Fourth Amendment’s requirements for an affidavit supporting a warrant to search the residence of an individual suspected of committing a crime involving the use of a computer. That issue figures prominently in Plaintiffs Julie and Jesse Peffer’s appeal of the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendan... More...

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Melisa Richmond v. Rubab Huq, et al.

Plaintiff Melisa Richmond was incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail from December 26, 2012 through February 13, 2013. While in the custody of the Jail, Richmond received treatment for a self-inflicted burn wound on her chest as well as for psychological needs. Richmond contends that she received constitutionally inadequate treatment for her burn wound, which necessitated skin ... More...

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Elise Hilton v. Catherine Mish

Elise and Ed Hilton, individually, and as next friends of their developmentally-disabled daughter, EH (collectively, the “Hiltons”), appeal the district court’s dismissal of their complaint. They argue that the district court erred in three respects. They allege that Catherine Mish, City Attorney for Grand Rapids, was acting under color of state law when she sent two emails f... More...

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Jane Doe v. Etihad Airways, P.J.S.C.

Plaintiff Jane Doe and her eleven-year-old daughter flew aboard Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi to Chicago. For the duration of the fourteen-hour journey, Doe’s tray table remained open in her lap because a knob that was meant to hold it in place had fallen to the floor. During the flight, Doe’s daughter found the knob on the floor and gave it to Doe, who placed it in a seatback ... More...

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Ronald Joseph Mitchell v. Justin Schlabach

Defendant-Appellee Justin Schlabach, an officer of the Munising Police Department, shot and killed Timothy Mitchell (“Mitchell”) following a lengthy and dangerous car chase. The crucial facts at the scene of the shooting were recorded on the officer’s dashboard camera, and our decision in this case turns in large measure on this evidence. Plaintiff-Appellant Ronald Mitchell f... More...

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Joseph Bailey v. City of Ann Arbor, et al.

In this qualified immunity case, Ann Arbor police officers relied on a security camera’s footage of a robbery, allegedly without accounting for inconsistent eyewitness testimony, in drafting a search warrant for Joseph Bailey’s residence. Yet the warrant did not say whether the description of Bailey came from the robbery victim or just the video and indeed mentioned both source... More...

$0 (06-20-2017 - MI)

USA v. Mehran Javidan

Mehran Javidan (“Javidan”) and Vishnu Pradeep Meda (“Meda”) worked together at Acure Home Care (“Acure”). Javidan, as a part-owner, handled the daily operations. Meda worked for Acure as a physical therapist. In mid-2008, Javidan approached her friend Muhammed Shahab (“Shahab”) for help entering the home-health business. At that time, Shahab was involved with at least two ... More...

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United States of America v. Vishnu Meda

Mehran Javidan (“Javidan”) and Vishnu Pradeep Meda (“Meda”) worked together at Acure Home Care (“Acure”). Javidan, as a part-owner, handled the daily operations. Meda worked for Acure as a physical therapist. In mid-2008, Javidan approached her friend Muhammed Shahab (“Shahab”) for help entering the home-health business. At that time, Shahab was involved with at least two ... More...

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David Herr v. U.S. Forest Service

David and Pamela Herr bought waterfront property on Crooked Lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and planned to use their gas-powered motorboat on it. That plan was dashed when the U.S. Forest Service threatened to enforce a regulation that bans non-electric motorboats from the ninety-five percent of the lake that falls within a National Wilderness Area. The Herrs responded with this lawsuit,... More...

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Zulema Bonner-Turner v. City of Ecorse

Shortly after his arrest, Alphonso Turner hanged himself in an Ecorse, Michigan jail using a shoelace that normally would have been taken from him during booking for his safety. His widow, as the personal representative of Turner’s estate and in her individual capacity, alleges in her complaint that city police officers were deliberately indifferent to Turner’s risk of suicide ... More...

$0 (09-16-2015 - MI)

John W. Paterek v. Village of Amanda, Michigan, Ben Delecke

Plaintiffs John (“Paterek”)1 and Cynthia Paterek (“the Patereks”), along with their company Paterek Mold & Engineering, Inc. (“PME”), (collectively “Plaintiffs”), appeal the district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants Ben Delecke, Commissioner of the Village of Armada Planning Commission, and the Village of Armada (collectively “Defendant... More...

$0 (09-08-2015 - MI)