CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. STEPAN CHEMICAL CO.

Civ. A. No. 81-851.

544 F.Supp. 1135 (1982)

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Plaintiff, v. STEPAN CHEMICAL COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Thomas, Jr., Deputy City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Bertram A. Stone, Stone, Pogrund & Korey, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Apollo Metals, Inc.

Mark D. Turetsky, Miller & Turetsky, Norristown, Pa., for defendant Armstrong Corp.

Andrew N. Grass, Jr., Todd B. Sollis, Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives, New York City, for defendant Atlas Minerals & Chemicals, Inc.

Joseph F. Van Horn, Swartz, Campbell & Detweiler, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Bank of Delaware.

Steven T. Stern, Braemer & Kessler, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Brind Leasing Co.

John R. Howland, Howland, Hess & Guinan, Huntingdon Valley, Pa., for defendant Chapman Industrial Finishes, Inc.

Patrick T. Ryan, J. Freedley Hunsicker, Jr., Cynthia J. Giles, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Congoleum Corp., UMC Industries, Inc. and Zallea Brother, Inc.

Denis V. Brenan, Richard F. McMeniman, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Allied Aviation Service Co., J. L. Clark Mfg. Co., Sonoco Products Co., U. S. Gypsum Co. and Durabond Products Co.

Michael L. Rodburg, Murry D. Brochin, Roseland, N. J., for defendant CPS Chemical Co.

Richard C. Rizzo, Bradford F. Whitman, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Delmarva Power & Light Co.

Henry P. Stonelake, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Diversified Printing Corp.

Albert L. Bricklin, Bennett, Bricklin, Saltzburg & Fullem, Philadelphia, Pa., for Grow Group, Inc.

Ronald I. Rosen, Michael Borish, Tabas & Furlong, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Pennex Products Co.

Clayton H. Thomas, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Precision Tube Co.

Leonard J. Lefkort, Gilbert & Gilbert, New York City, for defendant Radiac Research Corp.

Michael H. Malin, Jerrold P. Anders, White & Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Radiac Research Corp., Delaware County Regional Water, Control Authority (Delcora) and Gates Engineering Co.

John P. McKelligott, Harvey, Pennington, Herting & Renneisen, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Reading Industries, Inc.

Thomas P. Grace, LaBrum & Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Seton Co. and Wilmington Chemical Corp.

James W. Gladden, Jr., Priscilla Weaver, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Stepan Chemical Co.

David Richman, John A. Guernsey, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Sun Chemical Corp. and CPS Chemical Co.

Donald K. Joseph, Marc E. Gold, Barry M. Klayman, Wolf, Block, Schorr & SolisCohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Sybron Corp. and Ionac Chemical Co.

Henry H. Janssen, Warren L. Simpson, Jr., Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Thomas & Betts Corp. and T&B/Ansley Corp.

John W. Morris, Pierson, Cameron & Morris, P. C., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Wright Const. Co.


OPINION

DITTER, District Judge.

In this action, the City of Philadelphia ("the City") seeks to recover clean-up costs and consequential damages which resulted from the illegal dumping on city property of industrial waste generated by the defendants. The suit is predicated upon numerous federal and state environmental statutes as well as several common law theories of recovery. Defendants have filed a comprehensive motion for judgment on the pleadings under...

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