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77TH DIST JUDGE v. MICHIGAN

Docket No. 95138.

175 Mich. App. 681 (1989)

438 N.W.2d 333

77TH DISTRICT JUDGE v. STATE OF MICHIGAN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 8, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Van Kula, in propria persona.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Arthur E. D'Hondt and Michael A. Nickerson, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Farhat, Story & Krause, P.C. (by Max R. Hoffman, Jr.), for Michigan District Judges' Association.

Before: HOLBROOK, JR., P.J., and GILLIS and R.L. TAHVONEN, JJ.

HOLBROOK, JR., P.J.

This appeal raises the question of the constitutionality of those classifications in the statutory framework for compensation of district court judges that cause more favorable treatment in compensation and benefits to be received by 36th District judges than by the other judges of this state's district court. Plaintiff, the 77th District Judge, argued in the Court of Claims that his rights to equal protection under both the United States and Michigan...

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