WEHNER v. SYNTEX CORP.

No. 83-642 C (2).

622 F.Supp. 302 (1983)

Raymond F. WEHNER, Victoria Jean Maxwell, John Steven Lynn, and Noel Robison individually and trading as Robison Enterprises Excavating & Heavy Equipment Repair, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. SYNTEX CORPORATION; Syntex Agribusiness, Inc.; the Charter Company; Independent Petro-Chemical Corp.; Charter Oil Co.; Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Company; and Edwin Michaels, Milton Turkel, Daniel Schneider, Bernard Bortz and John Lee, as Trustees of the Last Board of Directors of Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Missouri, E.D.

December 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murry A. Marks, John Doskocil, Constatin Pulos, Doskocil & Pulos, St. Louis, Mo., Arnold Levin, Laurence S. Berman, Levin & Fishbein, Alan Kanner, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Paul S. Brown, Brown, James & Rabbitt, St. Louis, Mo., George Weisz, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for Independent Petrochemical.

Roberts & Heneghan, Inc., W. Munro Roberts, Jr., Ted L. Perryman, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants, Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co.; Edwin Michaels, John Lee, Milton Turkel.

Lewis & Rice, F. Wm. McCalpin, Richard A. Ahrens, St. Louis, Mo., Stephen D. Busey, James J. Taylor, Jr., Smith & Hulsey, Jacksonville, Fla., for Charter Co. and Charter Oil Co.

Hunton & Williams, Joseph M. Spivey, III, Richmond, Va., Robert L. Driscoll, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, Mo., John J. Cole, Armstrong, Teasdale, Kramer & Vaughan, St. Louis, Mo., for Syntex Corp.

Steven R. Baer, Brian G. Donohue, Environmental Enforcement Sec., Land & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., Cheryle Micinski, Asst. Regional Counsel, Region VII, U.S. E.P.A., Kansas City, Kan., Keith Onsdorff, Ken Farber, Stuart Hunt, Julie Becker, U.S. E.P.A., Washington D.C., for E.P.A.


MEMORANDUM ON MOTION TO DISMISS

FILIPPINE, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the motion of Independent Petrochemical Corporation (IPC) to dismiss plaintiffs' complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. This litigation arises out of the activities of Russell Bliss, who although not a party to this litigation, disposed of dioxin laden oil. The plaintiffs...

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