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ADAIR v. STATE

Docket No. 121536, Calendar No. 5.

680 N.W.2d 386 (2004)

470 Mich. 105

Daniel ADAIR, a taxpayer of the Fitzgerald Public Schools, and Fitzgerald Public Schools, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE of Michigan, Department of Education, Department of Management and Budget, and Treasurer of the State of Michigan, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 9, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pollard, Albertson, Nyovich & Higdon, P.C. (by Dennis R. Pollard and Richard E. Kroopnick), Bloomfield Hills, MI, for plaintiffs.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Jane O. Wilensky, Edith C. Harsh, and D.J. Pascoe, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, MI, for defendants.

White, Schneider, Young & Chiodini, P.C. (by James A. White, Kathleen Corkin Boyle, and Timothy J. Dlugos), Okemos, MI, for Michigan Education Association, amicus curiae.

TAYLOR, J.

This Court is once again called on to decide if the state has met its constitutional mandate to adequately fund public education. Plaintiffs are taxpayers and school districts seeking a declaratory judgment that the state failed to meet its funding responsibility mandated by Const. 1963, art. 9, § 29, a section of our Constitution that is commonly known as the "Headlee Amendment." The complaint asserts that...

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