State Highway Commission v. Vanderkloot

This case involves two substantial constitutional questions. The first relates to highway condemnation and the second to environmental law.

The first constitutional question concerns the highway condemnation act, MCLA 213.361 et seq.; MSA 8.261(1) et seq., and is whether the standard "necessity” is a sufficiently precise legislative delegation.

The second constitutional question, is whether the highway condemnation act is unconstitutional due to a failure to write into that act provisions to respond to Const 1963, art 4, § 52, the constitutional provision concerning protection of Michigan’s…