# Diehl v. Danuloff

> Michigan Court of Appeals · October 3, 2000 · 242 Mich. App. 120

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9524695

## Case

- **Full name:** Diehl v. Danuloff
- **Court:** Michigan Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** October 3, 2000
- **Citations:** 242 Mich. App. 120; 618 N.W.2d 83
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Bandstra
- **Judges:** Wilder, Bandstra, Cavanagh
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a "court appointed psychologist... ordered to conduct a psychological evaluation and submit a recommendation to the trial court in a custody proceeding is entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity"

## Opinion text

Bandstra, C.J.,
(concurring). I concur with the decision to affirm the trial court’s grant of summary disposition for the reasons stated by the court in part m B of the majority’s opinion. Because summary disposition can be affirmed on the basis of the quasi- *136 judicial immunity principles described there, I also conclude that it is unnecessary for us to consider the application of the governmental immunity act (part m A of the majority’s opinion) or the propriety or applicability of Bullock v Huster, 209 Mich App 551, 555 ; 532 NW2d 202 (1995), vacated and remanded 451 Mich 884 (1996), (On Remand), 218 Mich App 400 ; 554 NW2d 47 (1996), and further conclude we need not “hold that private psychologists performing court-ordered custody evaluations are excluded from the scope of governmental immunity under MCL 691.1407; MSA 3.996(107).” Ante at 127.

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