Allison Martuch

Allison Martuch is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Saginaw Valley. She was appointed upon the establishment of the court, on March 18, 2016. Martuch, an SVSU alumna, is a J.D. candidate at the University of Tulsa School of Law.

Martuch authored the court's unanimous opinion In re Replacing Representatives, 16-009 (2016), answering the question of whether or not the association is required to replace a Representative who has resigned or been removed. The Student Association By-Laws say that replacing representatives is "at the discretion of the association," however the Student Association Charter mandates that the association "shall elect a new member from the student body."

Writing for the court, Martuch found a conflict between those two provisions and, according to the order of precedence of the association's governing documents, she declared that the charter's provision should prevail.

"Failure to replace vacant Representative positions is a violation of the Charter and is unacceptable when in doing so, the Association is provided with a convenient guise or (and) does so under false pretense," she wrote in the opinion of the court.