{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-8","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VI, § 8","heading":"Court of appeals; election of judges, divisions.","body":"Sec. 8.\n\nThe court of appeals shall consist initially of nine judges who shall be nominated and elected at non-partisan elections from districts drawn on county lines and as nearly as possible of equal population, as provided by law. The supreme court may prescribe by rule that the court of appeals sit in divisions and for the terms of court and the times and places thereof. Each such division shall consist of not fewer than three judges. The number of judges comprising the court of appeals may be increased, and the districts from which they are elected may be changed by law.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VI"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VI%20%C2%A7%208","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"c78db1f80c3e0de211816f9ccd2f2cc1a12e965962a5fd67667233c1fe0c60b9","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-7","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-9","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}