CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD v. OAKLAND CTY. CLERK

Docket No. 238209.

654 N.W.2d 610 (2002)

253 Mich. App. 1

CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OAKLAND COUNTY CLERK and Oakland County Director of Elections, Defendants-Appellees, and City of Pontiac, Harbor Telegraph 2103, L.L.C., Bloomfield Acres Acquisition Company, L.L.C., Harbor Telegraph 1881, L.L.C., Harbor Telegraph 1899, L.L.C., and Harbor Vogue Plaza, L.L.C., Intervening Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 6, 2002, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication November 26, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley (by William P. Hampton, Gerald A. Fisher, and Janet Callahan Barnes), Farmington Hills, for Charter Township of Bloomfield.

Oakland County Corporation Counsel (by Julie L. Secontine, William G. Pierson, and Keith J. Lerminiaux) for the Oakland County Clerk.

Keith Norman and McGinty, Jakubiak & Hitch, P.C. (by Dennis E. McGinty), Pontiac, East Lansing, for the city of Pontiac.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (by Barry L. Howard, Norman Hyman, Susan K. Friedlaender, Timothy Knowlton, and John D. Pirich) for Harbor Telegraph 2103, L.L.C., Bloomfield Acres Acquisition Company, L.L.C., Harbor Telegraph 1881, L.L.C., Harbor Telegraph 1899, L.L.C., and Harbor Vogue Plaza, L.L.C.

Before: GAGE, P.J., and MARK J. CAVANAGH and WILDER, JJ.


GAGE, P.J.

This appeal involves plaintiff Charter Township of Bloomfield's challenge to the petitions initiating, and the scheduling of, a September 11, 2001, election to decide whether intervening defendant city of Pontiac could annex property located in Bloomfield Township. The circuit court refused the township's request to enjoin the annexation election and ultimately granted defendants summary disposition with respect...

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