By Dan Armstrong
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:10 p.m.
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NBC25 has learned the Michigan Department of Human Services is asking a court to throw out a case brought against it by Midland's Mackinac Center Legal Foundation.
The Mackinac Center says DHS is forcing child-care providers to join a union and pay union dues.
DHS says the case should be thrown out due to a technicality.
The Mackinac Center says, nearly $4-million in union dues are being taken out of Michigan subsidy checks illegally.
DHS says it can't comment on pending litigation.
