Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
April 27, 2021 Bridget M. McCormack,
Chief Justice
161690-1 Brian K. Zahra
David F. Viviano
KENNETH McKENZIE, Richard H. Bernstein
Elizabeth T. Clement
Plaintiff-Appellee, Megan K. Cavanagh
Elizabeth M. Welch,
v SC: 161690 Justices
COA: 347061
Wayne CC: 18-002451-CD
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, STATE
OF MICHIGAN, and MACOMB
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WARDEN,
Defendants-Appellants,
and
RANDALL HAAS,
Defendant.
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FATIMA OLDEN,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v SC: 161691
COA: 347798
Wayne CC: 18-001424-CD
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, STATE
OF MICHIGAN, and MACOMB
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WARDEN,
Defendants-Appellants.
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On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the May 7, 2020
judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered. We DIRECT the parties to submit
supplemental briefs within 28 days of the date of this order addressing whether MCL
600.6440 exempts the third count of each plaintiff’s amended complaint from the
exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See MCL 600.6419(1). The exemption in
MCL 600.6440 refers to claims “against the state [or] any department, commission,
board, institution, arm or agency thereof[,]” but the only defendant named in the third
count of either amended complaint is the defendant warden.
The application for leave to appeal remains pending.
I, Larry S. Royster, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
April 27, 2021
t0419
Clerk