Federated Insurance v. Oakland County Road Commission

I dissent from the majority’s holding that the Attorney General may not intervene in this case involving cost recovery for environmental contamination caused by defendant, Oakland County Road Commission. The majority’s holding imposes unprecedented and unsupportable limitations on the Attorney General’s ability to defend the interests of the people of the state of Michigan and to defend the interests of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) in the enforcement of Michigan law.

*298I also dissent from the majority’s unprecedented narrowing of who is an “aggrieved party” for the…