UNITED STATES v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 70-H-1335.

333 F.Supp. 1073 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant and Third Party Plaintiffs, v. William RUCKELSHAUS, Individually and as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al., Third Party Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

September 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. P. Farris, U. S. Atty., Rex R. Green, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., and Shiro Kashiwa, U. S. Asst. Atty. Gen., John P. Hills, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs and third-party defendants William Ruckelshaus and John Mitchell.

Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Fletcher Etheridge and George W. Rice, Houston, Tex., for defendant and third-party plaintiff.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen., of Tex., Roland H. Allen and Richard W. Chote, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for third-party defendants Gordon Fulcher and others.


MEMORANDUM AND OPINION:

HANNAY, District Judge.

This suit was instituted by the United States against the Armco Steel Corporation to permanently enjoin it from discharging certain effluent wastes into the Houston Ship Channel, Harris County, Texas. With subject matter jurisdiction predicated on Title 28, U.S.C.A., Section 1345 in the original complaint, the United States charges Armco with violation of Title 33, United States Code Annotated, Section 407...

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