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CIVIL RTS. INITIATIVE v. BD. OF CANVASSERS

Docket No. 264204.

708 N.W.2d 139 (2005)

268 Mich. App. 506

MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE, Plaintiff, v. BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS, Defendant, and Carl Williams, Hassan Aleem, and Percy Harris, Jr., Intervenors, and Operation King's Dream, Exie Chester-Griffin, Roosevelt T. Briston, Lillian A. Cummings, Nicole McCoy, Alicia Rose Spencer, Cheryl Thompson, Leslie Atzmon, Monica Smith, Maricruz Lopez, Kate Stenvig, Liana Mulholland, Alishia Steward, Joseph Johnson, Johnathan Crutcher, Turquoise Wise-King, Deneshea Richey, Ivan Adams, Rhiannon Chester, and Curtis Ray, Intervenors.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided October 31, 2005, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication January 6, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Safranek, Ann Arbor, for Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Heather S. Meingast and Patrick O'Brien, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Board of State Canvassers.

Carl Williams, Detroit, in propria persona.

Hassan Aleem, Detroit, in propria persona.

Percy Harris, Jr., Royal Oak, in propria persona.

Scheff & Washington, P.C. (by Miranda K.S. Massie, Shanta Driver, and George B. Washington), Detroit, for Operation King's Dream and others.

Before: SAAD, P.J., and CAVANAGH and JANSEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

I. Nature of the Case

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) complaint for mandamus asks this Court to direct the Board of State Canvassers to certify initiative petitions for placement on the November 2006 ballot. MCRI needed 317,757 signatures to qualify for the ballot and obtained and submitted 508,202 signatures. In 2003, the identical petitions in issue were approved by the board for form and language. But, thereafter, the circuit court...

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