"The Service Employees International Union Healthcare Michigan lawsuit claims the state is ending an existing collective bargaining agreement and is in violation of the contract clause of the U.S. Constitution. The SEIU has taken more than $30.4 million from the home health care aides since 2007.

A judge has put disputed union dues of $500,000 -- the amount taken since Attorney General Bill Schuette ordered an end to the scam -- in an escrow account, said Patrick Wright, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy's senior legal analyst."