Case ID: mich_403/html/0954-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

August 15, 1978
    
      In re Certified Questions from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (WXYZ, Inc v 47th District Judge).
    (Docket No. 61048.)
    The certified questions are considered and the Court respectfully declines to respond to the questions because (i) the interpretation of the Michigan statute is so closely intertwined with a Federal constitutional question that it will be necessary to consider the Federal question in order to decide the state question and (ii) the state constitutional questions parallel Federal constitutional questions, and therefore the issues cannot be decided entirely as matters of state law under the procedure provided in GCR 1963, 797.2.
    
      Kemp, Klein, Endelman & Ralls for plaintiffs. Keifer, Allen & Cavanagh for defendant.
    Kavanagh, C.J., and Fitzgerald and Blair Moody, Jr., JJ., would grant the request.