QUAKER STATE CORP. v. U.S. COAST GUARD

Civ. A. No. 87-55 Erie.

716 F.Supp. 201 (1989)

QUAKER STATE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

July 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester R. Babst, III, Dean A. Calland, Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., for Quaker State.

Lawrence R. Liebesman, Ellen M. Mahan, Michael D. Goodstein, Derek A. Capizzi, James Augustine, Washington, D.C., Craig R. McKay, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for U.S. Coast Guard.


OPINION

GERALD J. WEBER, District Judge.

In this litigation the government seeks to recover from Quaker State the costs of excavation and removal of oil contaminated ground at a site in the Allegheny National Forest. The subject site was an abandoned containment pit once used in oil drilling operations, and was allegedly discharging oil into a creek in the National Forest.

Quaker State successfully rebuffed the government's first attempt to impose...

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