Bretz v. City of Center Line

Defendant, City of Center Line, appeals from an interim order of the Macomb Circuit Court declaring unconstitutional its ordinance barring the employment of anyone within the second degree of consanguinity to any other city employee.

The plaintiff was denied employment with the defendant as a lifeguard. Defendant admitted plaintiff had not been hired because her brother was also employed by the city as a lifeguard.

Defendant based its action upon city ordinance 180, chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances for the City of Center Line which states in pertinent part:

"Sec. 2-1001 Deñnitions.—The terms…