Legal Opinion
Advisory Opinion Re Constitutionality of Pa 1970, No 100
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided March 1, 1971No. Calendar 15, Docket 52,933PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*89T. M. Kavanagh, J.
We were requested by the Legislature, pursuant to art 3, § 8, of tbe Michigan Constitution of 1963, to pass upon the constitutionality of chapter 2 1 of amendatory Act No 100 of the Public Acts of 1970.2
This act of the Legislature comes before our Court clothed with the presumption of constitutionality, and we must scrupulously sustain the legislative will if within the constitutional limitations of its function. 1 Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, ch 4 (8th ed, 1927); Evans Products Co. v. State Board of Escheats (1943), 307 Mich 506; Beacon Club v. Kalamazoo County…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Pierce v. Society of SistersSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Advisory Opinion Re Constitutionality of 1972 PA 294Michigan Supreme Court · 1973
- Traverse City School Dist. v. Atty. Gen.Michigan Supreme Court · 1971
- Woodland v. Michigan Citizens LobbyMichigan Supreme Court · 1985
- Council of Organizations & Others for Education About Parochiaid, Inc. v. GovernorMichigan Supreme Court · 1997
- Governor v. State TreasurerMichigan Supreme Court · 1973
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