Mayor of Detroit v. State

I concur fully with the majority opinion’s treatment of the Headlee Amendment issue. I write separately, however, because I disagree with the majority’s conclusion that a number of provisions of 1996 PA 374 must be stricken from the act as violative of the constitutional separation of powers. Const 1963, art 3, § 2. In my judgment, any potential separation of powers concerns are not yet ripe for decision.

The Judicial Attorneys Association (jaa) and the Government Administrators Association (GAA) contend that the coemployment relationship between local funding units and the courts created by…