KALIK v. ALLIS-CHALMERS CORP.

Civ. A. No. 86-966.

658 F.Supp. 631 (1987)

Ben KALIK and Frances Kalik, individually and Ben Kalik, t/d/b/a Swissvale Auto Surplus Parts Company, Plaintiffs, v. ALLIS-CHALMERS CORPORATION, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Max Berman, Simon Brothers Company, Inc., Dravo Corporation, Duquesne Light, Keystone Resources, LTV Steel Company, Luria Brothers & Company, Inc., Robert Strellec, Union Railroad Company, United States Steel Corporation, Wagner Electric Company, Weirton Steel, Consolidated Coal Company, National Steel Corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, General Electric Company, Sanford Steel Products, and Noralco Corporation, Defendants, v. Edward P. GREEN, the Kaiser-Nelson Steel & Salvage Corp., Marino Brothers, Inc., P.J. Greco & Sons, Inc., and Follansbee Steel Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

April 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl R. Schiffman, David L. Schwartz, Voelker, Schiffman, Parise & Wojdowski, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Kenneth Argentieri, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Allis-Chalmers Corp.

Blair McMillan, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Bethlehem Steel, Duquesne Light, LTV Steel, Union Railroad, U.S. Steel, Wagner Elec., Westinghouse Elec. and General Elec.

Harry F. Klodowski, Jr., Berkman, Ruslander, Pohl, Lieber & Engle, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Charles Berman, Sanford Steel and Keystone Resources.

J. Philip Bromberg, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Max Berman.

Michael D. McDowell, Dravo Corp., Legal Dept., Pittsburgh, Pa., for Dravo.

C. Richter Taylor, Jr., Buchanan Ingersoll, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Luria Bros.

Francis J. Carey, Balzarini, Carey & Maurizi, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Strellec.

John Lee, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Duquesne Light.

Ronald S. Cusano, Corcoran, Hardesty, Ewart, Whyte & Polito, Daniel Rogers, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Consolidated Coal.

Michael L. Magulick, Wayman, Irvin & McAuley, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Noralco.

David J. Armstrong, Frederick W. Bode, III, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Westinghouse Elec.

J.W. Montgomery, III, George E. Yokitis, Alder, Cohen & Grigsby, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Wagner Elec.

Charles Weiss, Peter G. Veeder, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Weirton Steel and Nat. Steel.

Avrum Levicoff, Egler, Anstandig, Garrett & Riley, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Kaiser-Nelson Steel & Salvage Corp.

John S. Sherry, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Marino Bros., Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

TEITELBAUM, District Judge.

This is an action by the owners of a site contaminated by hazardous substances against the manufacturers and suppliers of the products containing the hazardous substances to recover clean-up costs and damages under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and under state law.

The action was brought by the Kaliks (¶ 1.1, 1.2),1

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