State ex rel. Bunker Resource Recycling & Reclamation, Inc. v. Mehan

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Appellant Bunker Resource Recycling and Reclamation, Inc., (Bunker) appeals from a judgment denying its petition for a writ of mandamus. The case was brought to compel the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its Director, G. Tracy Mehan, III, to process Bunker’s application for a permit to incinerate infectious waste, or, in the alternative, to grant such permit. DNR filed a counterclaim seeking a declaratory judgment. Following a judgment by the trial court, an appeal was originally lodged in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. However, the appeal…