In re Parliamentary Opinion 17-01

In re Parliamentary Opinion 17-01, 18-002 (2018) is a case in which the Supreme Court of Saginaw Valley ruled 5-0 that Parliamentary Opinion 17-01 should be affirmed in the result and reversed in part. Chief Justice Michael Westendorf delivered the opinion of the Court.

The case arose after Representative Kelsey Earle filed charges against Representative Maura Losh. Earle filed the charges while she was a member of the association, however she graduated before the meeting where Losh was reviewed.

Earle alleged “that [Losh] had once said she was showing up to a meeting only to vote down a particular pro-LGBT house motion; been overheard disparaging [the association’s] diversity outreach efforts; attended assembly meetings in inappropriate attire; used inappropriate language to describe her job during [association] office hours and that she had been ‘domineering’ towards [association] committee chairs."



Facing expulsion, Losh wrote to Mueller requesting that he issue a Parliamentary Opinion to answer the question of “...whether or not a Representative can bring another Representative up for review if the accuser graduates before the house meeting when the review meeting will take place.”

On Jan. 8, 2018, Mueller issued Parliamentarian Opinion 17-01, and the charges against Losh were allowed to be read and she was ultimately expelled.

The court ruled upon the question of whether or not the association followed the correct process to expel Losh in a separate case: In re Maura Losh, 18-001 (2018).