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STATE v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO.

No. 15-201.

148 A.3d 559 (2016)

2016 VT 61

STATE of Vermont v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, et al.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

May 27, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sorrell , Attorney General, Scot L. Kline , Gavin J. Boyles , and Robert F. McDougall , Assistant Attorneys General, Montpelier, Matthew F. Pawa , Benjamin A. Krass and Wesley Kelman of Pawa Law Group, P.C., Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Robert J. Gordon , Robin Greenwald and William A. Walsh of Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, New York, and Scott Summy , Celeste Evangelisti and Carla Burke of Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, Texas, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ritchie E. Berger of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., Burlington, David J. Lender and Theodore E. Tsekerides of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York, and Deborah E. Barnard and Michael T. Maroney of Holland & Knight LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for Defendants-Appellees Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation and Mobil Corporation.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, SKOGLUND, ROBINSON and EATON, JJ.

¶ 1. This interlocutory appeal calls upon us to decide whether 12 V.S.A. § 462 creates an exemption from the general six-year limitation for the State of Vermont's claims against a host of defendants for generalized injury to state waters as a whole due to groundwater contamination from gasoline additives. On the basis of...

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