FEDNAV, LTD. v. CHESTER

Civil No. 07-11116.

505 F.Supp.2d 381 (2007)

FEDNAV, LIMITED, Canadian Forest Navigation Company, Limited, Nicholson Terminal and Dock Company, the Shipping Federation of Canada, the American Great Lakes Ports Association, Seaway Great Lakes Trade Association, the United States Great Lakes Shipping Association, Baffin Investments, Limited, and Canfornav, Incorporated, Plaintiffs, v. Steven E. CHESTER, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and Michael Cox, Attorney General for the State of Michigan, Defendants, and Michigan United Conservation Clubs, National Wildlife Federation, Alliance for the Great Lakes, and Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

August 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth C. Gold, Norman C. Ankers, Timothy A. Devine, Honigman, Miller, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiffs.

Robert P. Reichel, Michigan Dept of Atty. Gen., Lansing, MI, for Defendants.

Neil S. Kagan, National Wildlife Federation, Noah D. Hall, Amy L. Kullenberg, Ann Arbor, MI, Christopher E. Tracy, Howard & Howard, Kalamazoo, MI, John D. Pirich, Honigman, Miller, Lansing, MI, Andrew A. Nickelhoff, Sachs Waldman, Detroit, MI, for Intervenor-Defendants.

Randall M. Brown, Plunkett & Cooney, Detroit, MI, for Defendants/Intervenor-Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' AND INTERVENOR-DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS AND DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JOHN FEIKENS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs,1 various international shipping entities, seek a declaratory judgment that Michigan's Ballast Water Statute, Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.3112(6), is invalid in general and as applied to these Plaintiffs....

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