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Dearborn Heights council holds closed session, then adopts legal-counsel recommendation on two cases
Summary
At a Feb. 10 special meeting, the Dearborn Heights City Council moved into closed session to discuss two pending lawsuits and, after returning to open session, voted unanimously to adopt legal counsel's recommendation; the meeting adjourned at 5:52 p.m.
Dearborn Heights City Council on Feb. 10, 2026, moved into a closed session to discuss two pending legal cases and, after returning to open session, voted to adopt legal counsel's recommendation.
The motion to go into closed session was made by Councilwoman Breyer, who said: "I'll make a motion that the Dibbern Heights City Council move to a closed session at 05:03PM so that the city council may discuss the legal cases of Led Lion versus Durban Heights, case number 25Dash001548DashCK. And Crystal McLeod and Tyrone Kenny versus city of Durban Heights, case number 24Dash017809DashCH," and named city officials and outside counsel who might attend. The motion was seconded and approved by roll call.
After reconvening, Councilman Saab moved that the council "take the recommendation of the legal council" regarding the same case numbers and parties; Councilman Constance seconded. A roll-call vote recorded affirmative responses from the members present (names recorded on the roll), and the clerk announced the motion carried.
The meeting record names the two matters discussed in closed session by the transcript: the matter identified as case number 25-001548-CK (plaintiff listed in the transcript as Led Lion / log line) and the matter identified as case number 24-017809-CH (plaintiffs listed in the transcript as Crystal McLeod / McDonald and Tyrone Kenny / Kennedy). The transcript also records that outside counsel Keith Jablonski of O'Reilly Rancilio and city legal staff were included in the closed-session attendance list.
The council approved the special-meeting agenda by voice vote earlier in the session and, after the post-closed-session vote, approved a motion to adjourn; the clerk recorded the adjournment time as 5:52 p.m.
No public comments were recorded during the meeting's public-comment period, and the transcript contains variant spellings of some case names and certain council members' surnames. The article reports the case numbers and the text as stated in the meeting transcript; where the transcript shows variant spellings, this article preserves those spellings while using "Dearborn Heights" for the city's name consistently.
