TAXPAYERS OF MICHIGAN AGAINST CASINOS, and Laura Baird, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
The STATE of Michigan, Defendant-Appellee, and
North American Sports Management Company, Inc, IV, and Gaming Entertainment, LLC., Intervening Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued March 11, 2004.
Decided July 30, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Warner Norcross & Judd LLP (by Robert J. Jonker, William C. Fulkerson, Norbert F. Kugele, and Daniel K. DeWitt), Grand Rapids, MI, for the Taxpayers of Michigan Against Casinos.
Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, P.L.L.C. (by Eugene Driker and Thomas F. Cavalier), Detroit, MI, for the state of Michigan.
Dykema Gossett PLLC (by Richard D. McLellan, Bruce G. Davis, R. Lance Boldrey, and Kristine N. Tuma), Lansing, MI, for intervening defendant Gaming Entertainment, LLC.
Rhoades McKee (by Bruce W. Neckers and Bruce A. Courtade), Grand Rapids, MI, for the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.
Senate Majority Counsel (by Alfred H. Hall, Michael G. O'Brien, Phillip A. Hendges, and Pamela S. Haynes), Lansing, for Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema and Senator Shirley Johnson.
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Kevin J. Moody and Jaclyn Shoshana Levine), Lansing, MI, for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
Kanji & Katzen, PLLC (by Riyaz A. Kanji), Ann Arbor, MI, and Drummond, Woodsum & MacMahon (by Kaighn Smith and Robert Gips), Portland, Maine, for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan.
James A. Bransky, General Counsel, Petoskey, MI, for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Michael G. Phelan, Dowagiac, MI, for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.
Wheeler Upham, P.C. (by Geoffrey L. Gillis), Grand Rapids, MI, and Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP (by William R. Perry and Mary P. Pavel), Washington, DC, for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatatomi.
William Brooks, Mainstee, MI, for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
Schuitmaker, Cooper & Schuitmaker, P.C. (by Harold Schuitmaker), Paw Paw, MI, for the city of New Buffalo.
Dewane, Peterson, McMahon & Cullitan, P.L.C. (by David M. Peterson), St. Joseph, MI, for the New Buffalo Township.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Opinion
CORRIGAN, C.J.
In this declaratory action, we must determine: (1) whether House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 115 (1998), the Legislature's approval by resolution of tribal-state gaming compacts, constituted "legislation" and therefore violated Const. 1963, art. 4, § 22; (2) whether the compacts' amendatory provision providing that the Governor may amend the compacts without legislative approval violates the separation of powers doctrine found...
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