Legal Opinion
Borden, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Health
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 12, 1983PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNolan, J.
These appeals raise numerous procedural and. substantive facial challenges to regulations issued by the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health (commissioner), banning the sale, distribution, and all uses of urea-formaldehyde foamed-in-place insulation (UFFI) in the Commonwealth (ban regulations), and requiring the manufacturers, dealers, and installers of UFFI to remove it from any building where it was installed, restore the house, and refund the purchase price (repurchase regulations). The commissioner’s regulations were based on his findings that formaldehyde and UFFI were toxic,…
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