Legal Opinion
In Re Apportionment of Wayne County-2001
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided July 30, 2002No. Docket 235339PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
This matter pertains to the apportionment of Wayne County, a charter county, based on the 2000 census. MCL 45.501 et seq. We previously vacated the apportionment plan adopted by the Wayne County Apportionment Commission (respondent), holding that because the population divergence of any reapportioned district could not depart from perfect equality by more than 5.95 percent (in addition to the 11.9 percent total allowable divergence), the adopted plan (the Montgomery Plan) failed to meet the requirements of the laws of this state. We remanded for adoption of a plan consistent with our…
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