Lisa Tyra v. Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan ( 2014 )

Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
November 26, 2014 Robert P. Young, Jr.,
Chief Justice
148079 & (54) Michael F. Cavanagh
Stephen J. Markman
Mary Beth Kelly
Brian K. Zahra
Bridget M. McCormack
LISA TYRA, David F. Viviano,
Plaintiff-Appellee, Justices
v SC: 148079
COA: 298444
Oakland CC: 2009-103111-NH
ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF
MICHIGAN, d/b/a GIFT OF LIFE
MICHIGAN,
Defendant-Appellant,
and
STEVEN COHN, M.D., and WILLIAM
BEAUMONT HOSPITAL,
Defendants-Appellees,
and
DILLIP SAMARA PUNGAVAN, M.D.,
and JOHN DOE,
Defendants.
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On order of the Court, the motion to file supplemental authority brief is
GRANTED. The application for leave to appeal the August 15, 2013 judgment of the
Court of Appeals is considered. We direct the Clerk to schedule oral argument on
whether to grant the application or take other action. MCR 7.302(H)(1). At oral
argument, the parties shall address whether Zwiers v Growney, 286 Mich. App. 38 (2009),
was overruled by this Court’s decision in Driver v Naini, 490 Mich. 239 (2011), and
whether the defendant’s affirmative defenses were defective because they did not
specifically state the grounds for the defense. The parties may file supplemental briefs
within 42 days of the date of this order, but they should not submit mere restatements of
their application papers.
We further ORDER that this case be argued and submitted to the Court together
with the case of Tyra v Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan (Docket No. 148087).
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Motions for permission to file briefs amicus curiae and briefs amicus curiae regarding
these two cases should be filed in Docket No. 148079 only.
We direct the Clerk to schedule the oral argument in this case for the same future
session of the Court when it will hear oral argument in Furr v McLeod (Docket No.
149344).
I, Larry S. Royster, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
November 26, 2014
t1119
Clerk