Opinion
SC 164475 (5) (7) COA 361631
06-03-2022
JAMES CRAIG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS and SECRETARY OF STATE, Defendants-Appellees.
Ct of Claims: 22-000073-MB
Bridget M. McCormack, Chief Justice, Brian K. Zahra, David F. Viviano, Richard H. Bernstein, Elizabeth T. Clement, Megan K. Cavanagh, Elizabeth M. Welch, Justices
ORDER
On order of the Court, the motion for immediate consideration and the motion of Veronica Taylor-Biffle to file a brief amicus curiae are GRANTED. The application for leave to appeal prior to decision by the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is DENIED, because the Court is not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court before consideration by the Court of Appeals.
Viviano, J. (concurring).
I concur in the denial of leave to appeal. To the extent that plaintiff has raised arguments regarding the Board of State Canvassers disqualifying signatures on his petitions for lack of genuineness without checking them against the qualified voter file, while I believe this argument may have some merit, I ultimately believe mandamus is inappropriate for the reasons stated in my concurrence in Johnson v Bd of State Canvassers, 509 Mich. (2022) (Docket No. 164461).
Bernstein, J., would grant the bypass and order oral argument.