Adair v. State of Michigan

This case involves the Headlee Amendment1 and is before this Court for the third time. Most of the legal issues have been resolved and appear in the discussion of facts and procedural history below. The issues remaining are (1) whether plaintiffs must introduce evidence of a specific, quantified increase in costs resulting from a violation of the Headlee Amendment provision prohibiting unfunded mandates to establish entitlement to a declaratory judgment and (2) whether plaintiffs’ suit has been “sustained” under Const 1963, art 9, § 32, enabling plaintiffs to recover attorney fees. We answer…