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FANE v. DETROIT LIBRARY COM'N

Docket Nos. 116708, 116711, Calendar Nos. 4, 5.

631 N.W.2d 678 (2001)

Connie FANE and Charles Fane, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DETROIT LIBRARY COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellee. Karen L. Cox and Norman W. Cox, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 24, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic & Domol (by Richard E. Shaw), Southfield, MI, for plaintiffs-appellants in Fane.

Law Offices of R. Thomas Bidari, P.C. (by Ronald M. Haystead), Wyandotte, MI, for plaintiffs-appellants in Cox.

Clark, Hill, P.L.C. (by David S. Mendelson), Birmingham, MI, for defendant-appellee in Fane.

Lacey & Jones (by Charles J. Hurbis, Mary F. Clinton, and Michael T. Reinholm), Ann Arbor, MI, for defendant-appellee in Cox.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Mark S. Meadows, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for amicus curiae, Michigan Department of Management and Budget.

Opinion

MARILYN J. KELLY, J.

These consolidated cases question the scope of the public building exception to governmental immunity1 in light of this Court's ruling in Horace v. City of Pontiac, 456 Mich. 744, 575 N.W.2d 762 (1998). The parties in Fane dispute whether the elevated terrace where...

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