Detroit Police Officers Ass'n v. City of Detroit

I must respectfully dissent. The majority concludes that no showing of irreparable harm or inadequacy of legal remedy is necessary as a prerequisite to the issuance of an injunction to restrain a violation of MCL 423.243; MSA 17.455(43). I disagree.

Injunction is an extraordinary writ, MCR 3.301, and should only issue under extraordinary circumstances. I am not convinced that a labor dispute becomes extraordinary because it involves policemen and firemen rather than other public employees. I am also not convinced that the record before us justifies such a precipitous departure from traditional…