Opinion
Docket No. 149516. COA No. 312379.
2014-12-19
Bonnie BLACK, as Next Friend of Jessica BITNER, a Minor, Plaintiff–Appellee, v. William SHAFER, Mary Shafer, and Ian Gearhart, Defendants, and Anthony Shafer, Defendant–Appellant.
Prior report: Mich.App., 2014 WL 1233832.
Order
On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the March 25, 2014 judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is GRANTED. The parties shall address: (1) whether this action sounds in ordinary negligence or in premises liability; (2) the role, if any, of licensor-licensee relationships in this action; (3) the specific nature of the duty, if any, owed by defendant Anthony Shafer to the plaintiff's next friend, Jessica Bitner, with respect to Bitner's injury, including whether the parties had a legally significant “special relationship,” see generally, e.g., Williams v. Cunningham Drug Stores, Inc., 429 Mich. 495, 418 N.W.2d 381 (1988); (4) whether a reasonable juror could determine that a duty was breached; (5) the import of a third party's criminal act in negligently discharging a firearm; and (6) causation generally.