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LAKE CARRIERS' ASSN. v. MACMULLAN

NO. 71-422.

406 U.S. 498 (1972)

LAKE CARRIERS' ASSN. ET AL v. MACMULLAN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott H. Elder argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs was John A. Hamilton.

Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General of Michigan, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, and Jerome Maslowski and Francis J. Carrier, Assistant Attorneys General.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Robert A. Jenkins and Fenton F. Harrison for the Dominion Marine Assn., and by Nicholas J. Healy and Gordon W. Paulsen for Assuranceforeningen Gard et al.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, pro se, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas F. Harrison and Philip Weinberg, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief for the Attorney General of New York as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from the judgment of a three-judge District Court, convened under 28 U. S. C. §§ 2281, 2284, dismissing a complaint to have the Michigan Watercraft Pollution Control Act of 1970, Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 323.331 et seq. (Supp. 1971), declared invalid and its enforcement enjoined. 336 F.Supp. 248 (1971). We noted probable jurisdiction...

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