CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COM'N v. ANACONDA CO.

Civ. A. No. 77-1843.

445 F.Supp. 498 (1977)

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. The ANACONDA COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 13, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman C. Barnett, Sol., Consumer Product Safety Com'n, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Consumer Product Safety Com'n.

John P. Cole, Jr., Cole, Zylstra & Raywid, Edmund E. Harvey, Washington, D. C., for defendant The Anaconda Co., Wire and Cable Division; Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, New York City, of counsel.

Christopher H. Buckley, Jr., Beveridge, Fairbanks & Diamond, Washington, D. C., for defendant Bryant Elec. Co., Division of Westinghouse Elec. Corp.

Fred S. Fielding, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D. C., for defendants Circle F Industries, Inc., Ettco Wire & Cable Corp., Leviton Mfg. Co., Inc., American Insulated Wire Co., Rhode Island Insulated Wire Co., Pass & Seymour, Inc. and Triangle PWC, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Triangle Industries, Inc.

William N. Letson, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Washington, D. C., for defendant Coleman Wire & Cable Company, Inc.

Christopher Sanger, Tucker, Flyer, Sanger, Reider & Lewis, P. C., Washington, D. C., for defendants Eagle Elec. Co., Inc. and Slater Elec., Inc.

Eldon H. Crowell, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D. C., for defendant Essex Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.

Richard P. Shlakman, Franz M. Oppenheimer, Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin & Oppenheimer, Washington, D. C., for defendant General Cable Corp.

Robert Matthew Sussman, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., for defendant General Elec. Co., Wiring Device Business Dept.

R. Bruce Dickson, Vincent Mark J. Policy, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, Washington, D. C., for defendant John I. Paulding, Inc.

James L. Kaler, Paul M. Vincent, Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., Kaler, Worsley, Daniel & Hollman, Washington, D. C., for defendant Reynolds Metal Co.

F. Anthony Maio, Foley, Lardner, Hollabaugh & Jacobs, Washington, D. C., for defendant Sierra Elec. Division of Sola Basic Industries, Inc.

Victor M. Wigman, Herbert Cohen, Wigman & Cohen, Arlington, Va., Van C. Wilks, Wm. V. Hearnburg, Christopher N. Zodrow, Carrollton, Ga., for defendant Southwire Co.

John F. Graybeal, Foley, Lardner, Hollabaugh & Jacobs, Washington, D. C., for defendant Square D Co.

Phillip J. Harter, Washington, D. C., for Rhode Island Insulated Wire.

Ronald J. Greene, Edward Tynes Hand, Christopher R. Lipsett, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D. C., Max Thelen, Jr., Fredric C. Nelson, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, San Francisco, Cal., for Kaiser Aluminum; Robert W. Turner, Dennis M. Day, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., Oakland, Cal., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FLANNERY, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on the motions of certain defendants to dismiss or if the motions to dismiss are denied, to certify certain questions to the court of appeals pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). This is an action brought by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission) to have "old technology" aluminum wiring systems declared "imminently...

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