U.S. v. SERAFINI

Civ. A. No. 86-1591.

711 F.Supp. 197 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Louis SERAFINI, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

August 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Brandler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., Robert R. Kuehn and Steven R. Baer, Environmental Enforcement Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, James Dougherty, Office of Enforcement & Compliance Monitoring-Waste, U.S. Environmental Agency, Washington, D.C., Joseph Donovan, Asst. Regional Council, Region III, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia, Pa., for U.S.

David J. Rinaldi, Scranton, Pa., for O.S. C. Co., J.C. Baumann, D. Bridy, C.E. Rinaldi, trustee for C.A. Fisher, A.J. Rinaldi and D.J. Rinaldi.

Brian J. Cali and Robert A. Cecchini, Scranton, Pa., for Louis Serafini, Alfred Bernabei, Ernest Buttafoco and Michael J. Naples, Jr., Individually & t/a Empire Contract. Co.

Allan J. Topol and Richard J. DeSanti, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Eugene F. Healey, Managing Director, American Can Co., Greenwich, Conn., and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Timothy G. Rogers, New York City, for American Can Co.

Anthony J. Piazza, Jr., Tellie, Durkin, Weinberger, Murphy & Piazza, P.C., Scranton, Pa., Janine Landow-Esser, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., Thomas E. Styczen, Asst. General Counsel, Duchossois Industries, Inc., Elmhurst, Ill., Michael F. Dolan and Thomas Dent, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for Chamberlain.

Robert Gownley, Jr., Acting Sol., City of Scranton, Dept. of Law, Scranton, Pa., Steven Engelmyer, Daniel Segel and Larry DeSilver, Hangley, Connolly, Epstein, Chicco, Foxman & Ewing, Philadelphia, Pa., for City of Scranton.


ORDER

CALDWELL, District Judge.

On February 19, 1988, the court issued a memorandum and order denying the United States' motion for partial summary judgment against defendants Serafini, Bernabei, Buttafoco and Naples, individually and trading as the Empire Contracting Company (Empire defendants). The court ruled that the United States had established a prima facie case of liability under section 107(a)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation...

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