International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. State

Defendants, the Michigan Department of Mental Health and others, appeal from grants of permanent injunctions in favor of plaintiffs, the uaw and former patients of the Lafayette Clinic. Appealing in consolidated cases, defendants assert that the trial court incorrectly interpreted a number of provisions of the Mental Health Code and the Michigan Constitution. We hold that, under the doctrine of the law of the case, the issues raised in this appeal which were previously decided by our Court may hot be revisited. We find defendants’ other issues to be moot.

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The facts are not in dispute.…