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U.S. v. HOOKER CHEMICALS & PLASTICS CORP.

No. CIV-79-990C.

748 F.Supp. 67 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, the State of New York, and UDC-Love Canal, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. HOOKER CHEMICALS & PLASTICS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. New York.

October 2, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Piper & Marbury (Thomas H. Truitt and Steven K. Yablonski, of counsel), Washington, D.C., for defendant Occidental Chemical Corp.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y. (Eugene Martin-Leff and Robert E. Hernan, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel), New York City, for plaintiff State of N.Y.

CURTIN, District Judge.

BACKGROUND

Among the forms of relief it requests in its amended complaint, plaintiff State of New York ("State") seeks $250 million in punitive damages on its common-law public-nuisance claims. The State contends that such an award is warranted in light of what it describes as the role of defendant Occidental Chemical Corporation ("OCC") in the creation of "the public health and environmental disaster at Love Canal." Item 142 at ...

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