ATTORNEY GENERAL v. BD. OF STATE CANVASSERS

Docket Nos. 335947, 335958.

896 N.W.2d 485 (2016)

318 Mich.App. 242

ATTORNEY GENERAL v. BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS. Trump v. Board Of State Canvassers.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 6, 2016, at 6:15 p.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Carol L. Isaacs , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Matthew Schneider , Chief Legal Counsel, Bursch Law PLLC (by John Bursch ), Special Assistant Attorney General, and Kathryn M. Dalzell , Assistant Solicitor General, for the Attorney General.

Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, and Denise C. Barton , Heather S. Meingast , Erik A. Grill , and Adam Fracassi , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Board of State Canvassers and the Director of Elections.

Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Lansing (by Gary P. Gordon and Jason T. Hanselman ), Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Lansing (by John D. Pirich ), Jones Day (by Chad A. Readler ), and Doster Law Offices, PLLC (by Eric E. Doster ), for Donald J. Trump.

Goodman Acker, PC (by Mark Brewer ), and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP (by Jessica Clarke and Hayley Horowitz ) for Jill Stein.

Before: O'CONNELL, P.J., and MARKEY and MURRAY, JJ.


The Attorney General and President-elect Donald J. Trump have filed separate complaints for mandamus, each asking this Court to compel the Board of State Canvassers (the Board) to reject the November 30, 2016 petition of Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein that requested a recount of the votes cast in the November 8, 2016 general...

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