IN RE LAPEER CTY. CLERK

Docket No. 225025.

619 N.W.2d 45 (2000)

242 Mich. App. 497

In re LAPEER COUNTY CLERK. In re Marlene M. Bruns, in her capacity as the Lapeer County Clerk, and the Michigan Association of County Clerks. Lapeer County Clerk and Michigan Association of County Clerks, Plaintiffs, v. Lapeer Circuit Judges and Lapeer County, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 12, 2000, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication November 16, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Michael J. Hodge and Bernard R. Marinelli), Lansing, for Lapeer County Clerk and Michigan Association of County Clerks.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Darrin F. Fowler, Assistant Attorney General, for Lapeer Circuit Court.

Lange & Cholack, P.C. (by Craig W. Lange and Barbara F. Doolittle), Troy, for Lapeer County.

Barry L. Howard and Julie M. Hirsch, Pontiac, for amici curiae Michigan Judges Association.

Frederick R. Mulhauser, Charlevoix, for amici curiae Michigan Probate Judges Association.

James M. Collins, Marquette, amici curiae for Michigan District Judges Association.

Before: OWENS, P.J., and RICHARD ALLEN GRIFFIN and WHITBECK, JJ.


RICHARD ALLEN GRIFFIN, J.

"As with circuit court, the county clerk is the clerk of the court for the family division of the circuit court." 1996 PA 388, § 1007, M.C.L. § 600.1007; MSA 27A.1007.

This is an original action requesting a writ of superintending control filed by plaintiffs Marlene M. Bruns, in her capacity as the Lapeer County Clerk, and the Michigan Association of County Clerks. Plaintiffs'...

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