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NORTHVILLE DOWNS v. GRANHOLM

No. 09-1370.

622 F.3d 579 (2010)

NORTHVILLE DOWNS, Plaintiff-Appellant, Oil Capital Race Venture, Inc., dba Mt. Pleasant Meadows; Great Lakes Quarterhorse Association, Plaintiffs, v. Governor of the State of Michigan, Jennifer GRANHOLM; Michigan Attorney General, Michael A. Cox; MGM Grand Detroit, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 27, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Phillip B. Maxwell, Phillip B. Maxwell & Associates, PLLC, Oxford, Michigan, for Appellant. Melinda A. Leonard, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, Peter H. Ellsworth, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Phillip B. Maxwell, Phillip B. Maxwell & Associates, PLLC, Oxford, Michigan, Edward Draugelis, Draugelis & Ashton LLP, Clawson, Michigan, for Appellant. Melinda A. Leonard, Donald S. McGehee, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, Peter H. Ellsworth, Jeffery V. Stuckey, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Lansing, Michigan, Phillip J. DeRosier, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees.

GIBBONS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which ROGERS, J., joined. MERRITT, J. (pp. 590-91), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Northville Downs appeals the district court's grant of judgment on the pleadings to defendants-appellees Jennifer Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, Michael A. Cox, Attorney General of Michigan, and MGM Grand Detroit, LLC (collectively, "the defendants"). Northville Downs, Oil Capital Race Venture, Inc., and Great Lakes Quarterhorse Association (collectively, "the plaintiffs") sued...

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