CITY OF CENTER LINE v. DISTRICT JUDGES

Docket No. 59520, (Calendar No. 7).

403 Mich. 595 (1978)

271 N.W.2d 526

CITY OF CENTER LINE v. 37TH DISTRICT JUDGES

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy W. Rogensues and James M. Hacker for plaintiff.

Sherman P. Faunce, Don Binkowski, Thomas E. Kennedy, and George E. Montgomery, District Judges, in propriis personis.


FITZGERALD, J.

The City of Center Line asks us, for constitutional reasons and reasons of statutory construction, to hold that one of the four judges of the 37th judicial district must sit full time at the facilities provided by the city.

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The 1963 Constitution required the Legislature to establish a court of limited jurisdiction:

"The location of such court or courts, and the qualifications, tenure...

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