DETROIT — The state of Michigan will pay about $200,000 in attorney fees and costs in relation to a lawsuit that toppled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers more than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney signed off on a stipulated order Friday awarding the Mackinac Center for Public Policy attorney fees and costs more than a year and a half after the center represented medical providers and a patient suing the state over an executive order that required the facilities to delay nonessential services during the pandemic. Maloney’s order did not include the…
