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GRAND TRAVERSE CTY. v. STATE

Docket Nos. 98712, 98714, (Calendar No. 7).

450 Mich. 457 (1995)

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY v. STATE OF MICHIGAN

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 23, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law, Weathers & Richardson (by Douglas W. VanEssen) for the plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, and Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, for the defendants.

Amicus Curiae:

James E. Townsend for 20th Judicial Circuit Court, Ottawa County Probate Court, and 58th Judicial District Court.

RILEY, J.

These consolidated cases present us with statutory and constitutional questions regarding the funding of Michigan trial courts. With respect to the statutory question, MCL 600.9947; MSA 27A.9947, we conclude that the Legislature did not intend to create a judicially enforceable private cause of action for money judgment against the state. In § 9947(2), the Legislature clearly provided the remedy that would obtain if funding was not forthcoming. Hence...

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