PBB ACTION COMMITTEE v. DNR

Docket No. 61403.

403 Mich. 215 (1978)

268 N.W.2d 240

OSCODA CHAPTER OF PBB ACTION COMMITTEE, INC v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Olson and William Rastetter for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Stewart H. Freeman and Don L. Keskey, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants.


LEVIN, J.

The issue before the Court is whether to grant plaintiffs' application for leave to appeal the denial of a temporary restraining order by the Oscoda County circuit judge. Specifically, plaintiffs sought to block the burial, in a pit lined with 20 feet of clay, of animals whose level of polybrominated biphenyl (hereinafter PBB) exceeded the 20 parts per billion standard provided in 1977 PA 77, the PBB act.1

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