CASE NAME
YEAR
WEIGHT
Sand Dune Erosion Can Be Environmental Harm
1998
4
No Eminent Domain Compensation for Warren Highway Pollution
1998
2
Insurer Must Defend Company in Chemical Dumping Lawsuit
1994
4
DNR Liable for Beach Erosion on Grand Traverse Bay
1994
2
No Insurance Defense Coverage for Clare’s Leaking Landfill
1994
3
Insurer Must Defend Potential Polluter in EPA Investigation
1994
4
Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Reorganize the DNR
1993
3
Groundwater Pollution is No Nuisance for Lowering Property Values
1992
1
No Insurance Defense for Leaking Underground Storage Tank
1991
3
No Insurance Defense for Woodhaven’s Pesticide Application
1991
1
BIOGRAPHY

Justice Conrad Mallett, Jr. was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990 by Gov. James Blanchard (D). He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1994. He retired from the Court in 1998.

Justice Mallett graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He was admitted to practice law in Michigan in 1979 and became the Director of Legislative Affairs for Gov. Blanchard in 1983. He served as the Director and Executive Assistant to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young from 1985-1986.

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