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PAROCHIAID COUNCIL v. SEC. STATE

Docket No. 61836, (Calendar No. 1).

403 Mich. 396 (1978)

270 N.W.2d 1

COUNCIL ABOUT PAROCHIAID v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill (by Erwin B. Ellmann, Marshall W. Anstandig, and Eli Grier) for plaintiffs Council About Parochiaid, Loretta J. Manwaring, Henry Linne, William Mays, Jr., and Keith Geiger.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Charles D. Hackney, Assistant Attorney General, for defendants Secretary of State, Director of Elections, and Board of State Canvassers.

Downs, Pirich & Downs, P.C., and Hubbell, Blakeslee & Houlihan for intervening defendants Michigan Citizens for More Sensible Financing of Education, Robert E. Baldwin, Thomas M. Bergeson, John Dodge, Dr. Philip Elve, Sister Maryellen Harmon, Donald L. Kell, Marilyn Lundy, R.J. Lytle, Rev. Thomas A. Neis, Richard Schlegel, Rev. Msgr. Herman H. Zerfas, and Miles Jaffe.

Amici Curiae:

Marston, Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin & O'Hare for Michigan State AFL-CIO and Detroit Federation of Teachers.

ORDER

Plaintiffs have filed a complaint for mandamus in which they have asked the Court to direct the defendant State Board of Canvassers to invalidate the initiative petitions to amend the Constitution filed by the Citizens for More Sensible Financing of Education and to prohibit the defendant Secretary of State from certifying the proposition for the general election ballot. The board thereafter on September 8, 1978, declared the sufficiency of the petitions.

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