Leech v. Wayne County

*275HENRY, Justice.

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion.

While other and lesser questions lurk in the record, the principle issue is whether a county constitutionally may be exempted from the application of a significant provision of a general law applicable to all other counties similarly situated, by the use of a population bracket exception, absent a rational basis for the exemption.

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Constitutional Background

Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of 1870 enumerated the various county officers and Section 2 determined the proper method for filling vacancies. Its provisions were…