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STATE EMPLOYEES ASS'N v. LIQUOR COM'N

Docket No. 200373.

591 N.W.2d 353 (1998)

232 Mich. App. 456

MICHIGAN STATE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Michigan Association of Governmental Employees, Alfred A. Neal, and Michael L. Zimmerman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided November 6, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication February 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Foster, P.C. by Brandon W. Zuk, Lansing, for the plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Mark Matus, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn by John D. Pirich, Lansing, amicus curiae, for General Wine Company and General Wine and Liquor Company.

Dykema Gossett PLLC by Michael J. Brown, Lansing, amicus curiae, for Michigan Licensed Beverage Association.

Buesser, Buesser, Black, Lynch, Fryhoff & Graham, P.C. by Timothy T. Fryhoff, Bloomfield Hills, amicus curiae, for J. Lewis Cooper Co. and NWS Michigan, Inc.

Before MURPHY, P.J., and GRIBBS and GAGE, JJ.

GAGE, J.

State liquor employee plaintiffs initiated the instant suit in response to defendant's announcement in early 1996 that it intended to privatize the state-operated liquor warehousing and distribution system, thus closing state-operated liquor warehouses and stores and terminating plaintiffs' employment. In October 1996, plaintiffs sought a declaration that an administrative rule promulgated by defendant that defined...

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