Anglers of AuSable, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality

In these consolidated appeals, defendants, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (collectively the DEQ), and Merit Energy Company, appeal as of right the trial court’s June 25, 2007, opinion and final order granting in part plaintiffs’ motion for clarification and modification of the court’s prior order of injunction. Flaintiffs Anglers of the AuSable, Inc., and Mayer Family Investments, L.L.C., cross-appeal that same order. We reverse that order to the extent it concludes that the DEQ’s easement failed to convey riparian rights to…