KELLEY v. ARCO INDUSTRIES CORP.

No. K87-372 CA4.

739 F.Supp. 354 (1990)

Frank J. KELLEY, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, ex rel., MICHIGAN NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION, Michigan Water Resources Commission, and Gordon E. Guyer, Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Plaintiffs, v. ARCO INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr., and Robert P. Ferguson, Defendants, and ARCO INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. NORTHWEST COATINGS CORP., a Wisconsin corporation; General Latex and Chemical Corporation, an Ohio corporation; E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Company, a Delaware corporation; The Village of Schoolcraft, a Michigan municipal corporation; Drake's Fuel Service, Inc., a Michigan corporation; John A. Biewer Company, Inc., a Michigan corporation; Bar-Mo Metalcrafters, Inc., a Michigan corporation; Quality Films, Inc., a Michigan corporation; Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, a Michigan corporation; Weiss Trucking Company, Inc., an Indiana corporation; Grand Rapids Sash and Door Company, a Michigan corporation; G-H Detroit Holdings Company (formerly Peerless Cement Company), a Delaware corporation, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.

January 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley F. Pruss, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Environmental Protection Div., Lansing, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Joy Shawl Witte, Plunkett & Cooney, Lansing, Mich., Jay E. Brant, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Mich., Charles M. Denton, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Jon R. Muth, Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants.

Sidney D. Durham, Butler, Durham & Svikis, Parchment, Mich., Jay E. Brant, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Mich., Robert A. Soltis, Ford & Kriekard, P.C., Kalamazoo, Mich., Donald R. Worsfold, Linsey, Strain & Worsfold, Larry D. VanderWal, Grand Rapids, Mich., for third-party plaintiff.

J. Richardson Johnson, Early, Lennon, Fox, Thompson, et al., Kalamazoo, Mich., Arthur Vogel, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis., William H. Harbeck, Jeffrey K. Spoerk, Kalamazoo, Mich., Paul F. Ware, Jr., Jeffrey Bates, Barbara Gruenthal, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass., John F. Magyar, Magyar & Swisher, Dowagiac, Mich., James B. Ford, Zarbock & Ford, Robert A. Soltis, Ford & Kriekard, PC, Kalamazoo, Mich., Larry D. VanderWal, Linsey, Strain & Worsfold, Grand Rapids, Mich., Steven C. Kohl, Landman, Latimer, Clink & Robb, Muskegon, Mich., Douglas S. Touma, Touma, Watson, Whaling, Coury, et al., Port Huron, Mich., Randall S. Schau, Gemrich, Moser, Bowser, Fette, et al., Alfred J. Gemrich, Gemrich, Moser, Bowser, Fette, et al., Kalamazoo, Mich., Mary P. Sclawy, Grand Trunk Western R. Co., Law Dept., Laurence M. Scoville, Jr., Clark, Klein & Beaumont, Richard C. Marsh, Clark, Klein & Beaumont, Detroit, Mich., Gary A. Rowe, Smith, Haughey, Rice & Roegge, P.C., Douglas E. Wagner, Warner, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, Mich., Drew F. Seaman, Carol J. Wilson, Straub, Seaman & Allan, P.C., St. Joseph, Mich., for third-party defendants.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

This case is now before the Court on third-party defendant E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company's September 7, 1989 Motion to Dismiss. Also before me is a Motion to Dismiss filed on September 21, 1989 by third-party defendant Northwest Coating Corporation. In the principal action, the State of Michigan sued Arco Industries Corporation ("Arco") under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (...

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