Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality & Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Parker

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal comes to the Court from the Chancery Court of Jackson County, Mississippi, asking this Court to apply federal and state constitutional due process interpretation to a state administrative body’s hearing process. This Court is also asked to find that the lower court lacked venue of this matter.

Pursuant to statute, in 1989 the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (Commission) initiated proceedings to adopt a regulation, i.e. an ambient water quality standard for dioxin. Following three informational gathering public hearings, the Commission…