Brian REYNOLDS and Reynolds for Surveyor, a Michigan political candidate committee, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Bill Martin, Commissioner of the Bureau of State Lottery; and the BUREAU OF STATE LOTTERY, Defendants-Appellees, and
Attorney General and Bingo, Amici Curiae.
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Submitted September 15, 1999, at Grand Rapids.
Decided March 3, 2000, at 9:05 a.m.
Released for Publication May 22, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Boyden, Waddell, Timmons & Dilley, P.L.C. (by Thomas F. Koernke), Grand Rapids, for the plaintiffs.
Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Keith Roberts and E. Michael Stafford, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, and Dickinson Wright PLLC (by Peter H. Ellsworth and Jeffery V. Stuckey, Special Assistant Attorneys General), Lansing, for the defendants.
Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon and Katherine C. Galvin, Assistant Attorneys General, amici curiae for the Attorney General.
Sachs, Waldman, O'Hare, Helveston, Bogas & McIntosh, P.C. (by Mary Ellen Gurewitz), Detroit, for amici curiae B.I.N.G.O. (Bingo is Necessary for Grassroots Organization).
Before BANDSTRA, C.J., and MARKMAN and METER, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.
BANDSTRA, C.J.
At issue here is the power of the Legislature to reenact a law while a referendum process regarding that law is pending but before the general election deciding the referendum. Plaintiffs1 claim that, in granting declaratory relief to defendants, the trial court improperly determined that the Legislature has this power. We conclude that the relevant constitutional provisions do...
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