WALLS v. WASTE RESOURCE CORP.

No. 84-5287.

761 F.2d 311 (1985)

Linda WALLS; Jerry Walls; Richard Story; Gail Story; Russell Rogers; Mary Lee Rogers; Tammy Rogers; Russell Timothy Rogers; Roxie Wilson; Ida Broyles; Kenneth Hughes and Dorothy Hughes, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WASTE RESOURCE CORP.; Bumpass Cove Development Corp.; Waste Resources of Tennessee, Inc.; Jack McDonald; David Witherspoon, Sr.; Gary L. Phillips; Allied Chemical Corporation; Arapahoe Chemicals, Inc.; Beecham, Inc.; Burton Rubber Processing, Inc.; General Electric Co.; Hayes-Albion Corp.; Hoover Ball & Bearing Co., Inc.; I.P.C. Dennison Co.; the National Cash Register Co.; Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.; Rohm & Hass of Tennessee, Inc.; Texas Instruments, Inc.; Velsicol Chemical Corp.; Westinghouse Electric Corp.; American Cyanamid; Central Soya of Monroe, Inc.; Mussell White Farms; Waste Management, Inc.; TRW, Inc.; ABS Industries, Inc.; Alladin Plastics, Inc.; Burton Rubber Processing, Inc.; Columbus McKinnon Corp.; Grief Brothers, Inc.; International Playing Card; Kingsport Press, Inc.; Norandex, Inc.; Ball Metal & Chemical Corp.; Tri-State Container Corp., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Bank, Washington, D.C., John T. Milburn Rogers, Bell, Rogers, Laughlin & Nunnally, Greeneville, Tenn., Allan Kanner (argued), Paul Landeu, Arnold Levin, Laurence S. Berman, Levin & Fishbein, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard L. Bean, Vice-President ABS Industries, Willoughby, Ohio, for ABS Industries.

Fred H. Cagle, Jr., Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, Knoxville, Tenn., for Alladin Plastics Inc.

Paul R. Leitner, Leitner, Warner, William Godbold III (argued), Chattanooga, Tenn., David Witherspoon, Knoxville, Tenn., for Westinghouse Elec.

Keith McCord, McCord, Cockrill & Weaver, P.C., Knoxville, Tenn., Ellen S. Friedell, Philadelphia, Pa., for Rohm and Haas of Tennessee, Inc.

Richard T. Sowell, Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Wanda G. Sobieski (argued), Knoxville, Tenn., for Waste Resources Corp.

Wheeler A. Rosenbalm, Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, Knoxville, Tenn., for General Elec.

James W. Gentry (argued), Gentry & Boehm, Chattanooga, Tenn., for Velsicol.

John T. O'Connor, Bill Petty, Child, O'Connor & Petty, Knoxville, Tenn., for Waste Management.

William T. Wray, Jr., Hunter, Smith & Davis, Edwin L. Treadway, Gregory Haden (argued), Kingsport, Tenn., for Waste Resources of Tenn.

Allan Hull, Hull & Hull, Cleveland, Ohio, for Grief Bros.

David L. Tripp, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, et al., Detroit, Mich., for Hayes Albion.

Michael P. O'Rourke, Corporate Office of Hoover Universal, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., R. Hunter Cagle, Poore, Cox, et al., Knoxville, Tenn., for Hoover Universal.

Richard M. Currie, Jr., Kingsport, Tenn., Jack McDonald, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Kingsport Press.

William A. Walker, II, Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, Winterpark, Fla., for Mussell White Farms.

John R. Cromer, R. Davy Eaglesfield, III, Mishkin, Eaglesfield & Maher, Indianapolis, Ind., for National Cash Register.

Daniel W. Hammer, Thompson, Hine & Flory, Cleveland, Ohio, for Norandex.

Thomas J. Seeley, Jr., Erwin, Tenn., for Gary Phillips.

Jack Draper, Arnett, Draper & Hagood, Knoxville, Tenn., for Allied, American Cynamid.

G.W. Morton, Jr., John K. King, Knoxville, Tenn., Donald B. Oakley, P.C., Morristown, Tenn., for Arapahoe.

N.R. Coleman, Jr., Milligan, Coleman, Fletcher, Gaby & Kilday, Greeneville, Tenn., for Ball Metal, Central Soya, Columbus McKinnon.

Shelton B. Hillman, Jr., Gore, Hillman, Lauderback & Davenport, Bristol, Tenn., for Beecham and Orkin.

Gary L. Phillips, Gray, Tenn., for Bumpass Cove Development Corp.

Thomas C. McKee, Herndon, Coleman, Brading & McKee, Johnson City, Tenn., for Burton Rubber, Hayes Albion, IPC Dennison Co.

James H. Epps, III, Powell & Epps, Johnson City, Tenn., for Texas Instruments.

William G. Cockrill, McCord, Cockrill & Weaver, P.C., Knoxville, Tenn., for Tri-State Motor.

Noel F. Stahl, Cornelius, Collins, Higgins & White, Nashville, Tenn., Messers, Connelly & Kurent, Cleveland, Ohio, for TRW.

Before MERRITT and CONTIE, Circuit Judges and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this class action suit, a group of residents and homeowners of Bumpass Cove, in upper east Tennessee, are suing the owner, operators and users of the Bumpass Cove Landfill, a waste dumping ground near Bumpass Cove. The District Court dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint because it found that the plaintiffs had failed to adequately plead facts establishing federal subject matter jurisdiction. The...

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