Legal Opinion
Rayford v. City of Detroit
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided February 8, 1984No. Docket 74531PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Per curiam
After adoption by the Detroit City Council of the city budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1984, the Honorable Coleman Young, Mayor of the City of Detroit, faced with an excess of anticipated expenditures over anticipated revenues, and in order to avoid a budget deficit, implemented in late August of 1983 an austerity program which forced the layoff of personnel from various city departments, including 224 police officers. The individual plaintiffs herein are two of those officers. The Detroit Police Officers Association was permitted to intervene as a plaintiff.
The complaints allege…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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