JUDICIAL ATTORNEYS ASS'N v. STATE

Docket Nos. 111782, 111785, Calendar No. 8.

586 N.W.2d 894 (1998)

459 Mich. 293

JUDICIAL ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Government Administrators Association, Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. STATE of Michigan, Governor and Attorney General, Defendants-Appellants, and County of Wayne and Wayne County Board of Commissioners, Defendants-Cross Plaintiffs.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee R. Franklin, Detroit, MI, for plaintiff-appellee Judicial Attorneys Association.

Gregory, Moore, Jeakle, Heinen, Ellison, Brooks & Lane, P.C. (by Mark L. Heinen), Detroit, MI, for plaintiff-appellee/cross-appellant Governmental Administrators Association.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon and Katherine C. Galvin, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, MI, for defendants-appellants and cross-appellees State of Michigan, Governor John Engler, and Attorney General Frank J. Kelley.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Wayne County Corporation Counsel, and Edward Ewell, Jr., Deputy Corporation Counsel, Detroit, MI; and Fink Zausmer, P.C. (by David H. Fink, Gary K. August, and Amy M. Sitner), Detroit, MI, for defendants/cross-plaintiffs/appellants, Wayne County and Wayne County Board of Commissioners.


OPINION

MALLETT, C.J.

In the case of Judicial Attorneys Association and Government Administrators Ass'n v. State of Michigan, we granted leave to determine whether a provision of 1996 PA 374, MCL 600.593a; MSA 27A.593a, violates the Separation of Powers Clause of Const 1963, art 3, § 2, and the rights of members of the plaintiffs under the public employee relations act (PERA), M.C.L. § 423.201 et seq.; MSA 17.455(1) et seq.

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