Schmidt v. Genesee County Clerk

Intervening defendants, organizers of a recall petition drive, appeal by right from an injunction ordering the Genesee County Clerk not to process the recall petitions they had filed pursuant to MCL 168.961; MSA 6.1961. Plaintiffs, officers of Flint Township, were granted the injunction sought in their complaints after an evidentiary hearing held in circuit court. The circuit judge determined that the recall petitions did not meet statutory requirements in several respects. Intervening defendants appeal by right.

Plaintiffs were elected as township officers on November 4, 1980. Intervening…