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OAKLAND COUNTY v. DMH

Docket No. 104795.

178 Mich. App. 48 (1989)

443 N.W.2d 805

OAKLAND COUNTY v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided July 5, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Michael A. Nickerson and Thomas L. Casey, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendants.

Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Clark & Hampton (by William P. Hampton and John M. Donohue), for plaintiffs.

Amicus Curiae:

Clark, Hardy, Lewis, Pollard & Page, P.C. (by Dennis R. Pollard), for Oakland County Intermediate School District.

Before: GILLIS, P.J., and SULLIVAN and GRIFFIN, JJ.

GILLIS, P.J.

Taxpayer-plaintiffs sued the state, claiming that its practice of classifying money spent for the care of mentally ill and developmentally disabled individuals as spending paid to local units of government was unconstitutional pursuant to Const 1963, art 9, § 30. The trial court granted a declaratory judgment in plaintiffs' favor, holding that such expenditures were not state spending to local units of government for purposes of Const 1963, art 9...

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