LeROUX v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Docket No. 120338, Calendar No. 7.

640 N.W.2d 849 (2002)

465 Mich. 594

David LeROUX, Michael Gray, and Robert L. Ellis, Plaintiffs, v. SECRETARY OF STATE and Director of Elections, Defendants, and Suzanne L. Anderson, Sharon Yentsch, and Bradley Van Haitsma, Intervening Defendants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bodman, Longley & Dahling L.L.P. (by R. Craig Hupp, F. Thomas Lewand, and William B. Forrest, III), Detroit, MI, and Jenner & Block, L.L.C. (by Paul M. Smith, Sam Hirsch, Marc A. Goldman, and James A. Trilling), Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Gary P. Gordon and Katherine C. Galvin, Assistant Attorneys General and R. Lance Boldrey, Special Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for the defendants.

Dickinson Wright P.L.L.C. (by Peter H. Ellsworth, Jeffery V. Stuckey, Phillip J. DeRosier, and Susan G. Schwochau), Lansing, MI, and Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (by Michael A. Carvin and Louis K. Fisher), Washington, DC, for the intervening defendants.


PER CURIAM.

In this original action, plaintiffs challenge the plan for redistricting Michigan's fifteen seats in the United States House of Representatives adopted by 2001 PA 115. Plaintiffs claim that the statute was not validly enacted because the bill passed by the Legislature was changed by the Secretary of the Senate before presentation to the Governor for his approval. Second, they contend that the plan fails to comply...

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