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SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEM. MFRS. v. SECRETARY, DHHS

Civ. A. No. 89-0884-LC.

720 F.Supp. 1244 (1989)

SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, et al. v. SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

August 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard H. McLaughlin, Jr., Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements and Shaddock, Lake Charles, La., R. Bruce Dickson, Bruce D. Ryan, Lorie J. Schmidt-Praul, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph S. Cage, Jr., U.S. Atty., Thomas B. Thompson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sheila Lieber and Wendy Kloner, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Federal Programs Branch, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Charles S. McCowan, Jr., Bradley C. Myers, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, La., David J. Hayes, Douglas B. Farquhar, Catherine J. LaCroix, Hogan & Hartson, David F. Zoll, Susan T. Conti, Chemical Mfrs Assn., Washington, D.C., for intervenors Chemical Mfrs. Assn.

Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Newman & Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, La., Jacqueline M. Warren, Donald S. Strait, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City, for Natural Resources Defense Council.

Karen Florini, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., for Environmental Defense Fund.

VERON, District Judge.

RULING

This is an action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief challenging (a) the action of the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") establishing procedures and criteria under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") and the National Toxicology Program ("NTP"), pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 241(b)(4), classify chemical substances as ones that are known, or that may reasonably be anticipated...

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