Harbor Telegraph 2103, LLC v. Oakland County Board of Commissioners

This case involves efforts to detach a parcel of land that had been successfully detached from the jurisdiction of intervening defendant Bloomfield Charter Township and annexed to that of intervening plaintiff city of Pontiac. See Bloomfield Charter Twp v Oakland Co Clerk, 253 Mich App 1; 654 NW2d 610 (2002). The corporate entity plaintiffs (the Harbor Companies), which own the area of land in dispute, commenced the instant action for declaratory relief by filing a complaint challenging the validity of township petitions to reclaim the annexed property through the statutory process of…