LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. SEC. OF STATE

No. 357984, No. 357986.

981 N.W.2d 538 (2021)

339 Mich. App. 257

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN, Progress Michigan, Coalition to Close Lansing Loopholes, and Michiganders for Fair and Transparent Elections, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SECRETARY OF STATE, Defendant-Appellee, and Department of the Attorney General, Intervening Defendant-Appellee. League of Women Voters of Michigan, Progress Michigan, Coalition to Close Lansing Loopholes, and Michiganders for Fair and Transparent Elections, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Secretary of State, Defendant-Appellee, and Department of the Attorney General, Intervening Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided October 29, 2021, 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman Acker, PC, Southfield (by Mark Brewer ) for plaintiffs.

Christopher M. Allen , Assistant Solicitor General, Mark G. Sands , S. Peter Manning , Linus Banghart-Linn , and Christopher Braverman , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of the Attorney General.

Daniel S. Korobkin and Sharon Dolente , Bloomfield Hills, for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Amicus Curiae.

Dickinson Wright PLLC (by Charles R. Spies , Robert L. Avers , Ann Arbor, and Maureen J. Moody , Lansing) and Bursch Law PLLC, Caledonia (by John J. Bursch ), for the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives, Amicus Curiae.

Before: Ronayne Krause, P.J., and K. F. Kelly and Cameron, JJ.


In these consolidated appeals, appellants in both cases claim an appeal by right of the July 12, 2021 opinion and order of the Court of Claims, which addressed the constitutionality of certain provisions of 2018 PA 608, granted summary disposition in part to plaintiffs, and dismissed the case. We affirm in part and

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