(June 12, 2017, 11:38 AM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — A group that sued three Michigan state agencies challenging the constitutionality of a statute that imposes a time limitation on gathering signatures for the group’s ballot initiative to ban fracking on June 8 sought leave to appeal its case to the Michigan Supreme Court, arguing that the Michigan Court of Appeals misconstrued the declaratory judgment rule’s “actual controversy” standard to bar pre-enforcement challenges to the validity of state statutes (Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan, et al. v. Director of Elections, et al., No. 334480, Mich. Sup.)....