HOUSE SPEAKER v. GOVERNOR

Docket Nos. 94631-94633, (Calendar No. 6).

443 Mich. 560 (1993)

506 N.W.2d 190

HOUSE SPEAKER v. GOVERNOR MICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS v. GOVERNOR MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOUNDATION v. GOVERNOR

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Susan I. Leffler, Assistant Attorney General, and Mary Kay Scullion, Special Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff House Speaker.

Peter W. Steketee, Karen Kendrick-Hands, and Marcia M. McBrien, for plaintiff Michigan Environmental Protection Foundation.

M. Carol Bambery (Tom Downs, of counsel), for plaintiff Michigan United Conservation Clubs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Thomas C. Nelson and Deborah Anne Devine, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Dykema, Gossett (by Richard D. McLellan, William J. Perrone, and Sandra M. Cotter) and Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (by Peter H. Ellsworth and William C. Bertrand, Jr.), for Governor George Romney.


BRICKLEY, J.

Almost three decades ago, the State of Michigan ratified a new constitution. The document was the culmination of months of work, through the 1961 Constitutional Convention, restructuring Michigan's government to make it more efficient and accountable. Perhaps the biggest need for restructuring was in the executive branch, which, before the new constitution, was composed of so many boards, commissions, and departments that the executive branch lacked any...

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