TRAVERSE CITY SCHOOL DIST. v. ATTY. GEN.

No. 19 January Term 1971, Docket No. 53,144.

384 Mich. 390 (1971)

185 N.W.2d 9

TRAVERSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 31, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Running, Wise & Wilson, for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Solomon Bienenfeld, Eugene Krasicky, Russell A. Searl, and Maxine B. Virtue, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendants.

Hubbell, Blakeslee & McCormick; William R. Consedine, George E. Reed, Vincent C. Allred, and Alfred L. Scanlan (Shea & Gardner and Charles N. Whelan, of counsel), for intervening defendants.

Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill (by Erwin B. Ellmann, Daniel G. Hoekenga, and Wallace K. Sagendorph), for intervening plaintiffs.

Amici Curiae:

The League of Women Voters of Michigan (by Yvonne Y. Atkinson).

Oakland Schools (by MacLean, Seaman, Laing & Guilford).

Michigan Association of School Administrators and Michigan Association of School Boards (by MacLean, Seaman, Laing & Guilford).

Board of Education of Lansing School District (by Newman & Mackay).


WILLIAMS, J.

This case arises from a declaratory judgment suit, brought by the Traverse City School District in the 13th Circuit Court against the Attorney General, and joined by all the appropriate parties in interest, to test the validity of the Attorney General's opinion, (OAG 4715) issued on November 3, 1970, which construes Proposal C, the constitutional initiative amendment prepared by the Council Against Parochiaid, as forbidding public monies for shared time...

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