Justice Thomas G. Kavanagh

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CASE NAME	YEAR	WEIGHT
Hazardous Waste Treatment Plant Subject to Local Zoning Controls	1984	1
Local Zoning Control Weakened for Natural Resource Extraction	1982	1
Court Upholds Gov. Milliken’s Phosphorus Rule to Protect Lake Huron	1982	1

BIOGRAPHY

Justice Thomas G. Kavanaugh was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1968. He was re-elected in 1976, and his term ended in 1984. Justice Kavanaugh served as Chief Justice from 1975 – 1979.

Justice Kavanaugh graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law).

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