Detroit City Council v. Mayor of Detroit

In these consolidated and expedited appeals, defendant Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr., in his capacity as mayor of the city of Detroit, and intervening defendant Detroit Building Authority appeal by right the declaratory judgment in plaintiff’s favor entered by the circuit court. Flaintiff Detroit City Council sought a declaration that the Regional Convention Facility Authority Act, MCL 141.1351 et seq., did not authorize a mayoral veto of its resolution disapproving the transfer of the Cobo Convention Center to the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority. The circuit court ruled that the…