Court Opinion

ID: 9704313
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:30:29.374967+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:00.123224
License: Public Domain

Riley, J.
I respectfully dissent.
This case was rendered moot prior to the time the Department of Civil Rights filed the complaint against the Waterford Township Department of Parks and Recreation in February, 1979, because, as the majority carefully notes, Susie Forton was previously granted (February, 1978) a temporary injunction permitting her to play winter basketball for the remainder of her stay in elementary school. While I acknowledge that there is precedent for this Court to review matters that are moot if the circumstances warrant, I do not believe that this is such a case. I am persuaded that it makes little sense in the context of the facts before us to engage in exhaustive constitutional analyses *203which not only do not lead to resolution of this case but, rather, return it to the trial court for another several years of litigation.
I would dismiss the complaint filed against the defendant on February 8, 1979, thus rendering any action taken on the complaint a nullity, including the Court of Appeals opinion which I would hold also to be a nullity.
Archer, J., took no part in the decision of this case.