MICH. ED. ASS'N v. SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 280792.

761 N.W.2d 234 (2008)

280 Mich. App. 477

MICHIGAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION v. SECRETARY OF STATE.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 28, 2008, at 9:05 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White, Schneider, Young & Chiodini, P.C., Okemos (by Kathleen Corkin Boyle), for the Michigan Education Association.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, B. Eric Restuccia, Solicitor General, and Patrick J. O'Brien, Denise C. Barton, Heather S. Meingast, and Ann M. Sherman, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Secretary of State.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC, Lansing (by Eric S. Doster), for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.

Sachs Waldman, P.C., Detroit (by Andrew Nickelhoff), for the Michigan State AFL-CIO and Change to Win.

Patrick J. Wright, for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Alfred H. Hall and Michael G. O'Brien, Lansing, for the Senate Majority Leader, the Senate Majority Floor Leader, and the Senate Campaign and Oversight Committee Chairman.

Before: WILDER, P.J., and O'CONNELL and WHITBECK, JJ.


Opinion of the Court

O'CONNELL, J.

Respondent Secretary of State appeals by leave granted the trial court order setting aside as arbitrary and capricious respondent's declaratory ruling interpreting § 57 of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act, MCL 169.201 et seq. (MCFA). We reverse.

I. BASIC FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

A. THE PARTIES

1. THE SECRETARY OF STATE

The respondent-appellant in this matter is the...

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