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LAPEER CTY. CLERK v. LAPEER CIRCUIT JUDGES

Docket Nos. 118091, 118102, Calendar No. 6.

640 N.W.2d 567 (2002)

465 Mich. 559

LAPEER COUNTY CLERK and Michigan Association of County Clerks, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LAPEER CIRCUIT JUDGES, Defendants-Appellees, and Lapeer County, Defendant-Appellant. Lapeer County Clerk and Michigan Association of County Clerks, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lapeer Circuit Judges, Defendants-Appellants, and Lapeer County, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 12, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., by Michael J. Hodge and Bernard R. Marinelli, Lansing, MI, for plaintiff-appellee Lapeer County Clerk.

Lange & Cholack, P.C., by Craig W. Lange and Barbara F. Doolittle, Troy, MI, for defendant-appellant Lapeer County. Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Darrin F. Fowler, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for defendants-appellants Lapeer Circuit Judges.

Alton T. Davis, Secretary, Michigan Judges Association, Grayling, MI, Frederick R. Mulhauser, Representative, Michigan Probate Judges Association, Charlevoix, MI, Leo Bowman, President, Michigan District Judges Association, and Julie M. Hirsch Pontiac, MI, for the Michigan Judges Association, the Michigan Probate Judges Association, and the Michigan District Judges Association.

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiffs filed this superintending control action challenging the Lapeer Circuit Court's plan for the operation of the family division of the circuit court. The Court of Appeals granted part of the relief sought, finding that the plan improperly denied the county clerk the right and duty to function as clerk of the court for the family division. We conclude that the Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction of the superintending control...

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