LIVINGSTON CTY. v. DMB

Docket No. 79074, (Calendar No. 3).

430 Mich. 635 (1988)

425 N.W.2d 65

LIVINGSTON COUNTY v. DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohl, Salstrom, Stoker & Aseltyne, P.C. (by Larry A. Salstrom), for the plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Solicitor General, and James E. Riley, Thomas J. Emery, and Sheldon A. Silver, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Fitzgerald, Hodgman, Cox, Cawthorne & McMahon (by Dennis O. Cawthorne and James G. Cavanagh) for Michigan Association of Counties.

Sondee & Racine (by W. Peter Doren) for Michigan Municipal League and Michigan Townships Association.


BRICKLEY, J.

This case involves an interpretation of the Solid Waste Management Act and Const 1963, art 9, § 29, a provision of the Headlee Amendment, which in part, requires the state to appropriate funds to units of local government for the necessary increased costs associated with "an increase in the level of any activity or service beyond that required by existing law...." The specific question in this case is whether application of the provisions of the...

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