CONSUMERS POWER CO. v. ATTY. GENERAL

Docket Nos. 79277, 79278.

426 Mich. 1 (1986)

392 N.W.2d 513

CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by John D. Pirich and Michael J. Hodge) for the plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

L. Brooks Patterson and Michael J. Modelski for Citizens for Capital Punishment.

Tom Downs, P.C., Eugene G. Wanger, and Dorean M. Koenig for Michigan Coalition Against the Death Penalty.


PER CURIAM:

In this declaratory judgment action brought by Consumers Power Company and the Detroit Edison Company, the Ingham Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals have determined that MCL 168.472a; MSA 6.1472(1) is constitutional. We affirm the judgments of those courts.

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In 1973, the Legislature enacted 1973 PA 112 which provides:

It shall be rebuttably presumed that the signature on a petition which proposes an amendment to the constitution...

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