CITIZENS v. NORTHPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.

Docket No. 209901.

608 N.W.2d 480 (2000)

239 Mich. App. 284

CITIZENS FOR UNIFORM TAXATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTHPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, Leland Public School District, Glen Lake Community School District and Suttons Bay School District, Defendants-Appellees, and State Board of Education, Department of Treasury, and State Tax Commission, Intervening Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided January 7, 2000, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication April 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Running, Wise, Ford & Phillips, PLC (by J. Bruce Donaldson), Traverse City, and Blakeslee, Chambers & Peterson, P.C. (by Stephen C. Chambers and David Bieganowski), Traverse City, for Citizens for Uniform Taxation.

Thrun, Maatsch and Nordberg, P.C. (by David Olmstead), Lansing, for Northport Public School District and others.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorney General, for State Board of Education and others.

Before: McDONALD, P.J., and MICHAEL J. KELLY and MARK J. CAVANAGH, JJ.


McDONALD, P.J.

Plaintiff appeals as of right the circuit court's order granting summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) in favor of defendants. We affirm.

This appeal involves the constitutionality of the Legislature's amendment of § 12111 of the Revised School Code, M.C.L. § 380.1 et seq.; MSA 15.4001 et seq., following voter approval of Proposal A, which amended Const. 1963, art. 9, § 3 and...

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