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SCOTT v. CITY OF HAMMOND, IND.

Nos. 80 C 4563, 80 C 4775.

519 F.Supp. 292 (1981)

William J. SCOTT, on his own behalf and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF HAMMOND, INDIANA; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Douglas M. Costle, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Hammond-Munster Sanitary District, Defendants. PEOPLE OF the STATE OF ILLINOIS and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, a municipal corporation, Plaintiffs, v. The SANITARY DISTRICT OF HAMMOND, a municipal corporation; Joseph A. Perry; Thomas C. Conley; Gilbert DeLancy; Theodore Dunajeski; and the City of Hammond, Indiana, a municipal corporation, Defendants.

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

June 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Attermeyer, U.S. Environmental Agency, Chicago, Ill., William L. Want, Pollution Control Status, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Conley and DeLancy.

Kenneth Anspach, Tyrone C. Fahner, Atty. Gen., George Wm. Wolff, Chief, Environmental Control Div., James Murray, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Jeremiah Marsh, David O. Toolan, Michael Schneiderman, John L. Conlon, Hopkins, Sutter, Mulroy, Davis & Cromartie, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CROWLEY, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on defendants' motions to dismiss. For the reasons stated below, those motions are denied.

These two lawsuits (among others) arose from the pollution of Lake Michigan and the fouling of many Chicago public beaches last summer. Both complaints allege that the City of Hammond and the Sanitary District of Hammond (collectively, "Hammond") discharged large quantities...

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