Borden, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Health

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that public health interest in removing hazardous urea-formaldehyde foam insulation overrides the manufacturers’ interest in integrity of contracts
• upholding regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Public Health banning the sale of UFFI and requiring its repurchase under certain circumstances
• party challenging the validity of a regulation must prove in a judicial proceeding “that the regulation is illegal, arbitrary, or capricious”
• Superior Court order invalidating Commissioner of Public Health’s regulations banning urea-formaldehyde foamed-in-place insulation (UFFI) reversed
• \[A] properly promulgated regulation has the force of law . . . and must be accorded all the deference due to a statute\
• “Some doubts [about] whether [a particular type of insulation] properly installed in houses will cause the symptoms characteristic of exposure to formaldehyde will not stay the commissioner’s hand”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).