COALITION OF STATE EMP. UNIONS v. STATE

Docket No. 147758. Calendar No. 2.

870 N.W.2d 275 (2015)

498 Mich. 312

MICHIGAN COALITION OF STATE EMPLOYEE UNIONS v. STATE of Michigan.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Wertheimer , Bingham Farms, for all plaintiffs.

Michael B. Nicholson , Buchanan and Ava R. Barbour , Detroit, for International Union UAW and Local 6000.

Sachs Waldman, PC (by Andrew Nickelhoff and Mami Kato , Royal Oak), for SEIU Local 517M and the Michigan Corrections Organization.

Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC, Lansing (by Michael E. Cavanaugh and Brandon W. Zuk ), for the Michigan Coalition of State Employee Unions.

Miller Cohen, PLC, Detroit (by Robert D. Fetter and Keith D. Flynn ), for Michigan AFSCME Council 25.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, Matthew Schneider , Chief Legal Counsel, Larry F. Brya , Special Assistant Attorney General, and Frank J. Monticello , Joshua O. Booth , and Patrick M. Fitzgerald , Assistant Attorneys General, for all defendants.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Lansing (by Michael J. Hodge and Scott R. Eldridge ), for the Michigan Civil Service Commission.


Plaintiffs are several unions that represent employees in the state classified civil service. Their members are the beneficiaries of and participants in Michigan's retirement system established under the State Employees Retirement Act (SERA).1 SERA was enacted in 1943 and has been amended many times since...

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