EWELL v. PETRO PROCESSORS OF LOUISIANA, INC.

Civ. A. No. 86-693-B.

655 F.Supp. 933 (1987)

Dave Haas EWELL, Jr., et al. v. PETRO PROCESSORS OF LOUISIANA, INC., et al.

United States District Court, M.D. Louisiana.

March 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryant W. Conway, Baker, La., for plaintiffs.

Richard B. Launey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for Environmental Quality, E.P.A., Health and Human Resources.

Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, William D'Armond, Sandra L. Edwards, Baton Rouge, La., for U.S. Steel Corp., Copolymer Rubber & Chemical Corp., Uniroyal Corp.

John Swanner, Seale, Smith and Phelps, Baton Rouge, La., for Dow Chemical.

Harry S. Hardin, III, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitement Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for Browning-Ferris, Inc.

John R. Tharp, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for Ethyl Corp., Shell Chemical Corp., Allied Chemical Corp., Rubicon Chemicals, Inc.

Roger M. Fritchle, H. Evans Scobee, Baton Rouge, La., for Exxon Corp., Allied Chemical Corp., N.P.C. Services, Inc.

Stephen W. Glusman, Baton Rouge, La., for American Hoechst Co.


POLOZOLA, District Judge.

Plaintiff originally filed this suit on July 1, 1976 in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, asserting claims against numerous defendants for damages allegedly resulting from the dumping of materials on the property of Petro Processors of Louisiana, Inc. In plaintiff's Twelfth Amending and Supplemental Petition the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was named as a...

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