Safiedine v. City of Ferndale

Plaintiffs, JSC Corporation, MTK Family Investment, and MTK Family Investment, LLC (collectively, the corporate plaintiffs), appeal by leave granted the trial court’s grant of summary disposition to defendant, city of Ferndale. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

This appeal by the corporate plaintiffs raises an issue of first impression under Michigan’s primary civil rights law: Do the antidiscrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act (CRA), MCL 37.2101 et seq., protect only natural persons, and not juridical persons such as corporations? In other words, do…