UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION

No. 72 C 2503.

391 F.Supp. 234 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America and the People of the State of Illinois, ex rel. William J. Scott, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Counter-Plaintiff, v. William J. SCOTT, Attorney General of Illinois, et al., Counter Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

June 28, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Sturges, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff and counter-defendants Train and Mayo.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Joseph V. Karaganis, Harvey M. Sheldon, Chicago, Ill., for People of State of Ill.

Henry L. Pitts, James T. Harrington, Hackbert, Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar and Poust, Chicago, Ill., for defendant and counter-plaintiff.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for Hense, Marder, Odell, Seaman and Briceland, counter-defendants.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

MARSHALL, District Judge.

This action represents the combined effort of the United States of America and the People of the State of Illinois to remedy alleged injury caused by defendant's effluent discharges into Lake Michigan. The gravamen of the complaint is common law public nuisance. The complaint as it now stands, however is framed in two counts: Count 1 alleges a violation of the common law of the United States, and Count 2 avers that...

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