Order Michigan Supreme Court Lansing, Michigan September 18, 2009 Marilyn Kelly, Chief Justice 137990 Michael F. Cavanagh Elizabeth A. Weaver SAULT STE. MARIE TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA Maura D. Corrigan Robert P. Young, Jr. INDIANS, Stephen J. Markman Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant/ Diane M. Hathaway, Appellee, Justices v SC: 137990 COA: 276712 Chippewa CC: 04-007606-CC BERNARD BOUSCHOR, Defendant/Appellant, and DANIEL T. GREEN, DAVID E. SCOTT, JAMES M. JANNETTA, and DANIEL J. WEAVER, Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs/ Appellees, and PAUL W. SHAGEN, JOSEPH M. PACZKOWSKI, and JOLENE M. NERTOLI, Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs, and MILLER, CANFIELD, PADDOCK & STONE, P.L.C., Defendant/Appellee. _________________________________________/ On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the November 18, 2008 judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered. We DIRECT the parties to submit supplemental briefs, within 35 days of the date of this order, addressing the issue whether Michigan’s governmental tort liability act, MCL 691.1401 et seq., applies to defendant Bernard Bouschor, the former tribal chairperson of plaintiff Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, in light of the Tribe’s status as a sovereign and the definitions contained in MCL 691.1401. The application for leave to appeal remains pending.

I, Corbin R. Davis, 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.

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