GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP. v. BABCOCK & WILCOX

No. 80 Civ. 1683.

547 F.Supp. 842 (1982)

GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Company, Plaintiffs, v. The BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY and J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

September 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for plaintiffs; David Klingsberg, New York City, of counsel.

Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for defendants; Robert B. Fiske, Jr., New York City, of counsel.


OPINION AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

This action arises out of calamitous events occurring at the Pennsylvania nuclear electric generating facility known as Three Mile Island Unit No. 2 ("TMI") on March 28, 1979.

Plaintiff General Public Utilities Corporation, ("GPU"), and the other named plaintiffs, owners and operators of the facility, in sum, claim that defendant Babcock & Wilcox, ("B&W"), manufacturer of the nuclear system, is liable...

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