Rushton v. Meijer, Inc.

I wholeheartedly concur with part I of the majority opinion; however, I dissent from part n. Thus, I would reverse the lower court’s order denying summary disposition for defendant in its entirety.

The essence of the majority position is that the parties’ contract is valid except for the agreement to *171arbitrate a civil rights claim. Thus, the agreement to arbitrate, as it pertains to civil rights, has been found to violate public policy, and the court has rewritten the parties’ agreement by striking that provision. Accordingly, the current state of the law is that the freedom to contract…