- Date
- 2007-04
- Kind
- Legal proceeding
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentconservationmaritimelegal-instrumentcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beacon reported that shipping companies had sued Michigan over the constitutionality of the Michigan Ballast Water Act. The report placed the case in the context of invasive species threats to the Great Lakes and pending federal action on ballast-water controls.
Evidence limits
This is a contemporaneous newspaper account; it does not identify the full plaintiff list, docket, later rulings, or the law’s eventual status.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2007, "Michigan Sued by Foreign Fish."Reports a coalition of shipping companies suing Michigan in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, claiming the Michigan Ballast Water Act was unconstitutional, amid concern over Great Lakes invasive species. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the legal and environmental report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Shipping companies sue Michigan over the Ballast Water Act, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ballast-water-lawsuit-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2007, "Michigan Sued by Foreign Fish." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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