Case Challenges Michigan “Emergency Manager” Law
Flint, MI –(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2017. Today, a coalition of Michigan residents, organizations, and civil rights attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Michigan’s controversial Emergency Manager Law. The law allows the State to replace all local elected officials and elected school boards in so-called “financially distressed” municipalities and school districts with an unelected “emergency manager,” accountable only to the governor’s office. The case asserts that…
