Doman v. City of Grosse Pointe Farms

This appeal involves a suit brought under the Michigan Handicappers’ Civil Rights Act (mhcra), MCL 37.1101 et seq.; MSA 3.550(101) et seq. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant city violated the mhcra when it terminated him from employment as a laborer with its Department of Public Works because he was handi capped as a result of mental illness. In August, 1984, and May, 1986, the Wayne Circuit Court denied defendant’s pretrial motions for summary disposition in which defendant argued that plaintiff did not fall within the category of persons protected by the mhcra because his condition was…