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HERRICK DIST. LIBRARY v. LIBRARY OF MICH.

Docket No. 300393.

810 N.W.2d 110 (2011)

293 Mich. App. 571

HERRICK DISTRICT LIBRARY v. LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 16, 2011, at 9:15 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C., Grand Rapids (by Michael D. Homier and Laura J. Garlinghouse ), for the Herrick District Library.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, David H. Goodkin , Assistant Attorney General, for the Library of Michigan and the Department of Education.

Law Weathers, Grand Rapids (by Richard W. Butler, Jr. , and Crystal L. Morgan ), for the Lakeland Library Cooperative, the Woodlands Library Cooperative, the White Pine Library Cooperative, and the Superiorland Library Cooperative.

Dykema Gossett PLLC, Lansing (by William J. Perrone and Courtney F. Kissel ) for the Ann Arbor District Library.

Before: METER, P.J., and SAAD and WILDER, JJ.

SAAD, J.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

The Michigan Supreme Court recently addressed the issue of whether citizens who pay taxes to support their local library are obliged by the Michigan Constitution to provide identical services or library privileges to citizens of another jurisdiction who do not pay any taxes or fees for these library services. Goldstone v. Bloomfield Twp. Pub. Library, 479 Mich. 554,

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