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PROTECT MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION v. SEC. OF STATE

Docket No. 311504.

824 N.W.2d 299 (2012)

297 Mich. App. 553

PROTECT MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION v. SECRETARY OF STATE.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 14, 2012, at 9:00 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson Wright, PLLC, Lansing (by Peter H. Ellsworth and Jeffrey V. Stuckey ), and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, LLP, Lansing (by John D. Pirich and Andrea L. Hansen ), for Protect MI Constitution.

B. Eric Restuccia , Deputy Solicitor General, and Jeanmarie Miller , Denise C. Barton , and Nicole A. Grimm , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Secretary of State.

Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C., Lansing (by Jonathan E. Raven and Graham K. Crabtree ), for Citizens for More Michigan Jobs.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Richard A. Bandstra , Chief Legal Counsel, and Laura L. Moody and Mark G. Sands , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Amicus Curiae Attorney General.

Before: OWENS, P.J., and O'CONNELL and RONAYNE KRAUSE, JJ.

O'Connell, J.

In this original action, plaintiff, Protect MI Constitution (PMC), seeks a writ of mandamus against defendant Secretary of State (the Secretary). PMC asks this Court to direct the Secretary to reject a ballot question petition for a constitutional amendment filed by intervening defendant Citizens for More Michigan Jobs (CFMMJ). We grant the requested relief.

I. INTRODUCTION

CFMMJ is a ballot question committee that collected more than...

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