Legal Opinion
Lamphere Schools v. Lamphere Federation of Teachers
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided May 2, 1977No. 58159, (Calendar No. 2)PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blair Moody, Jr.,
J. The issue in the case at bar is limited to whether a federation (union) of public school teachers may be held liable in tort by a public school district for alleged monetary damages incurred as a result of a peaceful strike prohibited by the public employment relations act (PERA), MCLA 423.201 et seq.; MSA 17.455(1) et seq.
We hold that plaintiff-appellant school district is barred from suing defendant-appellee federations for damages under any of the traditional common-law tort theories asserted infra. We arrive at this conclusion for basically three reasons.
First and…
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