OUELLETTE v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

No. 201, Docket 85-7506.

776 F.2d 55 (1985)

Harmel OUELLETTE and Lila Ouellette, Clifton Browne and Edla Browne, Aldee Plouffe and Shirley Plouffe, individually, on behalf of themselves, and on behalf of all similarly situated plaintiffs, H. Vaughn Griffin, Sr., Ardath Griffin, Alan Thorndike and Ellen Thorndike, Wesley C. Larrabee and Virginia Larrabee, F. Alfred Patterson, Jr., and Lois T. Patterson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan F. Eaton, Middlebury, Vt. (Peter F. Langrock, Emily J. Joselson, Langrock Sperry Parker & Wool, Middlebury, Vt., Smith, Harlow & Liccardi, Rutland, Vt., Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Atty. Gen. of the State of Vt., Montpelier, Vt., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

James W.B. Benkard, New York City (Jamie Stern, John R. D'Angelo, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York City, Dinse, Erdmann & Clapp, Burlington, Vt., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before KAUFMAN, PRATT, and MINER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

By order dated February 5, 1985, the district court, Albert W. Coffrin, Chief Judge, denied defendant's motion pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c) and 56(b) to dismiss plaintiffs' cause of action concerning water pollution. Ouellette v. International Paper Co., 602 F.Supp. 264 (D.Vt.1985). The district court held (i) that the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq. authorizes...

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