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DURANT v. STATE BD. OF ED.

Docket Nos. 72895, 73245. (Calendar Nos. 2, 3).

424 Mich. 364 (1985)

381 N.W.2d 662

DURANT v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION WATERFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 30, 1985.

Released February 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark, Hardy, Lewis, Pollard & Page, P.C. (by Dennis R. Pollard and Timothy K. McConaghy), for the plaintiffs in Durant.

William G. Wolfram and Bruce T. Leitman for the plaintiffs in Waterford.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gerald F. Young and James E. Riley, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.

Amicus Curiae in Waterford:

Hiller, Larky & Hoekenga (by Daniel J. Hoekenga and Gregory J. Bator) for Michigan Education Association.

BOYLE, J.

We granted leave in these two cases to consider the proper interpretation of specific provisions of the "Headlee Amendment," Const 1963, art 9, §§ 29, 30, and 32.

In Durant, the Court of Appeals had originally refused to hear a request for mandamus on the ground that plaintiffs (several taxpayers from the Fitzgerald School District and the Fitzgerald Public Schools), by failing to first obtain a decision before the local government...

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