WALLS v. WASTE RESOURCES CORP.

Civ. No. 2-83-418.

640 F.Supp. 79 (1986)

Linda WALLS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. WASTE RESOURCES CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

May 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan Kanner, Douglas Lind, Howard J. Sedran, Arnold Levin, Philadelphia, Pa., John T. Milburn Rogers, Greeneville, Tenn., J.D. Lee, Knoxville, Tenn., Richard M. Bank, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Richard T. Sowell, Wanda Sobieski, Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant Waste Resources Corp.

William T. Wray, Jr., Hunter, Smith & Davis, Kingsport, Tenn., for defendant Waste Resources of Tennessee, Inc.

John S. Bingham, Bingham & Francisco, Kingsport, Tenn., for defendant Gary L. Phillips.

Jack B. Draper, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants Allied Chemical Corp. and American Cyanamid.

Donald B. Oakley, P.C., Morristown, Tenn., for defendant Arapahoe Chemicals, Inc.

Paul R. Leitner, Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendant Arapahoe Chemicals, Inc. and Westinghouse Elec. Corp.

William E. Godbold, III, Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendant Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Thomas C. McKee, Johnson City, Tenn., for defendants Burton Rubber Processing, Inc., Hayes-Albion Corp., I.P.C. Dennison Co., and International Playing Card & Lable.

Frank Winston, Bristol, Tenn., for Intern. Playing Card & Lable.

Fred H. Cagle, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants General Elec. Co., and Aladdin Plastics, Inc.

R. Hunter Cagle, Poor, Cox, Baker, Ray & Burne, Knoxville, Tenn., for Hoover Ball & Bearing Co., Inc.

John R. Cromer, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendant The Nat. Cash Register Co.

Keith McCord, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant Rohm & Hass of Tennessee, Inc.

R. Keith Hopson, Dennis P. Reis, Brown, Maroney, Rose, Barber & Dye, Austin, Tex., James H. Epps, III, Johnson City, Tenn., for defendant Texas Instruments, Inc.

James W. Gentry, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendant Velsicol Chemical Corp.

N.R. Coleman, Jr., Ronald W. Woods, Greeneville, Tenn., for defendants Central Soya of Monroe, Inc., ABS Industries, Inc., Columbus McKinnon Corp., and Ball Metal & Chemical Corp.

Bill W. Petty, Child, O'Connor & Petty, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant Waste Management, Inc.

Noel F. Stahl, Nashville, Tenn., for defendant TRW, Inc.

Shelton B. Hillman, Jr., Bristol, Tenn., for defendants Beecham, Inc. and Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.

Carey S. Sheldon, Sheldon & Andrews, Ashtabula, Ohio, for defendant ABS Industries, Inc.

Allan Hull, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Grief Brothers, Inc.

Richard M. Currie, Jr., Kingsport, Tenn., for defendant Kingsport Press, Inc.

Daniel W. Hammer, Thompson, Hine & Flory, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Normandex, Inc.

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

William G. Cockrill, Bud Gilbert, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant Tri-State Container Corp.


ORDER

HULL, Chief Judge.

This is an action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. [CERCLA] brought by private parties to recover "response costs" not from the "superfund" but from the principal responsible parties. Under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 9612(a), private plaintiffs are required, as a jurisdictional pre-requisite, to give sixty days notice before filing...

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