SOAP & DETERGENT ASS'N v. NRC

Docket No. 47660.

103 Mich. App. 717 (1981)

304 N.W.2d 267

THE SOAP & DETERGENT ASSOCIATION v. NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided February 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Thomas L. Munson, Robert D. Dunwoodie and Bowden V. Brown), (Baker & Hostetler, and John E. Stephen, General Counsel, Amway Corporation, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Stewart H. Freeman and Susan G. Peck, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants.

Before: BRONSON, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and CYNAR, JJ.


J.H. GILLIS, J.

This appeal challenges the Natural Resources Commission's power to promulgate 1979 AC R 323.1173(4) [1977 AACS R 323.1173(4)],1 which limits the amount of phosphorus in cleaning agents sold in Michigan to 0.5%. The underlying lawsuit was filed by The Soap and Detergent Association, a trade association, Amway Corporation, a manufacturer of cleaning agents and household laundry detergents sold in Michigan, and Monsanto Company...

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