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MGM GRAND DETROIT, LLC v. COMMUNITY COALIT. FOR EMPOWERMENT INC.

Docket No. 119309, Calendar No. 2.

633 N.W.2d 357 (2001)

465 Mich. 303

MGM GRAND DETROIT, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COMMUNITY COALITION FOR EMPOWERMENT INC., and Ernest Johnson, Defendants-Appellants, v. Jackie L. Currie, in her capacity as City Clerk for the City of Detroit and Detroit City Council, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 30, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Wright, P.L.L.C. by Peter H. Ellsworth, Maurice H. Jenkins, and Jeffery V. Stuckey, Detroit, for plaintiff-appellee.

Constitutional Litigation Associates, P.C. by Cynthia Heenan, and Hugh M. Davis, Jr., Detroit, for defendants-appellants.

City of Detroit Law Department by Phyllis A. James; and Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, P.L.L.C. by Eugene Driker and Morley Witus, Detroit, co-counsel, for third-party defendants-appellees.

TAYLOR, J.

The issue is whether Detroit Ordinance 35-98 is exempt from the power of referendum found in the Detroit Charter. On its own motion, this Court voted to grant leave to appeal1 before a decision by the Court of Appeals. Having heard oral argument, we now find as follows:

(1) The power of referendum in the Detroit Charter does "not extend to the budget or any ordinance for the appropriation of money...." Detroit Charter...

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