Corporations dump on our courts...again

It's interesting that corporations express outrage when individual citizens and our elected government agencies "clog up the courts" to address a grievance. Yet, here again, a corporation is trying to use the court system to increase its profits at taxpayers' expense. This time its the landfill company who wants to push around the locals who currently have control over how much garbage can be put in their township and counties. (MRC, 2010)

Previous courts have ruled in favor of local planning commissions who want to limit and collect taxes to recover costs to citizens for the roads, inspections, losses from environmental degradation, loss of other business investments, etc. Those decisions just weren't good enough for Pitsch Disposal Corp. They want to shift the balance of power from the locals to themselves.

If Pitsch wins in Ionia Circuit Court, it will set a precedent for control of all Michigan land use and planning commissions and taxing authorities. Likely Clinton County Board of Commissioners will have significantly reduced say about garbage that is received into our boundaries. This is pretty scary, given we are home to two landfills.

(Court of Appeals Docket 2007-08 showing the many briefs by Pitsch which our gov't must respond to) 
(The relevant regulation can be found at R 299.4119 page 22 of DEQ regulations)