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UNITED STATES v. CONSERVATION CHEMICAL CO.

No. 82-0893-CV-W-5.

589 F.Supp. 59 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CONSERVATION CHEMICAL COMPANY, Norman B. Hjersted, Conservation Chemical Co. of Illinois, Armco Steel Corporation, FMC Corporation, International Business Machines Corp., Western Electric Company, Inc., Mobay Chemical, Defendants.

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

February 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Josephson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., John R. Barker, Environmental Enforcement Section, Land Natural Resource Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Niewald, Waldeck, Norris & Brown, Terry L. Karnaze, Michael Waldeck, Kansas City, Mo., for defendants Conservation Chemical, Norman B. Hjersted, and Conservation Chemical of Illinois.

Martin J. Purcell, Stanley Reigel, Morrison, Hecker, Curtis, Kuder & Parrish, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Armco, Inc.

John M. Kilroy, Jr., Thomas F. Fisher, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant FMC Corp.

James F. Duncan, Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, Kansas City, Mo., Allan J. Topol, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for defendant IBM Corp.

Jerome T. Wolf, Carl H. Helmstetter, Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Kansas City, Mo., John A. McKinney, Jr., Alan R. Chesler, New York City, for defendant AT & T Techn., Inc. (formerly Western Electric).

Stephen Jacobson, Lathrop, Koontz, Righter, Clagett & Norquist, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Mobay Chemical.

ORDER

SCOTT O. WRIGHT, District Judge.

The United States has brought this civil action to obtain injunctive relief in order to remedy a situation alleged by the government to present an imminent and substantial danger to public health and the environment caused by groundwater contamination from hazardous substances at the chemical disposal site of defendant Conservation Chemical Company ("CCC"). The suit seeks relief against the owner of the disposal site...

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