U.S. v. WESTERN PROCESSING CO., INC.

Nos. C89-214M, C83-252M and C89-224M.

751 F.Supp. 902 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America and The State of Washington, Plaintiffs, v. The WESTERN PROCESSING COMPANY, INC., et al.; The Boeing Company, et al., Defendants. The BOEING COMPANY, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. A & A ANDERSON TANK SERVICE, LTD., et al., Third-Party and Cross-Claim Defendants. AMERICAN TAR COMPANY, et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. A & A Anderson Tank Service, Ltd., et al., Third-Party and Cross-Claim Defendants. Jack and Leah PINCHEV, Third-Party Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, and State of Washington, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington, at Seattle.

October 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Gould, Perkins & Coie, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff Boeing Co.

Marcus B. Nash, Stafford, Frey, Cooper & Stewart, Seattle, Wash., for defendant NW Steel Rolling Mills Liquidating Trust.

Frederick O. Frederickson, Michael J. Swofford, Graham & Dunn, Seattle, Wash., for defendant and third-party defendant Security Pacific Bank Corporation Northwest.

Ronald A. Franz, Carney, Stephenson, Badley, Smith & Spellman, Seattle, Wash., for defendant Liquid Waste Disposal Co.

Garmt J. Nieuwenhuis, Issaquah, Wash., pro se.

J. Tanya Barnett, Laurie Sillers-Halvorson, Jon Peter Ferguson, Atty. Gen. Office, Tort Claims Div., Seattle, Wash., J. Tanya Barnett, Laurie Sillers-Halvorson, Atty. Gen. Office, Ecology Div., Olympia, Wash., for cross-claimant Washington State.

Susan L. Barnes, U.S. Atty. Office, Seattle, Wash., David W. Zugschwerdt, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff and cross-claimant U.S.

Peter H. Haller, Ater, Wynne, Hewitt, Dodson & Skerritt, Seattle, Wash., for third-party plaintiffs Atlantic Richfield Co., Bethlehem Steel Corp., Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Flecto Coatings Ltd., John Fluke Mfg. Co., Heath Techna Aerospace Co., Morton Thiokol Inc., Pacific Propellor Inc., Safety Kleen Inc., Seattle Times Inc., Pittsburgh & Midway Coal Mining Co. and Western Pneumatic Tube Co.

Jeffrey B. Wihtol, Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, Portland, Or., Peter H. Haller, Ater, Wynne, Hewitt, Dodson & Skerritt, Seattle, Wash., for third-party plaintiff American Tar Co.

Larry Bruce Alexander, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Widing Transp. Inc.

John R. Allison, Betts, Patterson & Mines, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Crosby & Overton Inc.

Lisa M. Stone, Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, Seattle, Wash., Kevin Q. Davis, Stephen S. Walters, Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, and Richard D. Bach, Portland, Or., for third-party defendants Precision Castparts Corp., Intern. Controls Corp. and Radiation Intern.

Marc A. Bateman, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Ace Galvanizing Co. and Pontius Trucking.

Richard John Watkins, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Ryan & Haworth Co.

James Morton Beecher, Hackett, Beecher & Hart, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant RSR Corp.

Robert Farnum Bakemeier, Jeffrey Wayne Leppo, Jeanette DiScala McGraw, Bogle & Gates, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Lockheed Shipbuilding & Const. Co., Davis Walker Co. and McMillan Bloedel.

Clark J. Davis, Davies Pearson P.C., Tacoma, Wash., for third-party defendant Bayside Waste Hauling & Transp. Co.

Robert Jerome Grenier, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Amalgamated Services Inc.

Victoria Jensen Bjorkman, Lawrence E. Hard, LeSourd & Patten, P.S., Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Union Oil Co. of Cal., GATX Tank Storage Terminal Corp., Northwest Tank Service, and Canadian Forest.

Jerry H. Kindinger, Sharon J. Bitcon, Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Lee & Eastes Tank Lines, Inc., Inland Transp. Co., Inc., Pay 'N Save Corp., and South Center Oil Inc.

John P. Lycette, Jr., Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Nat. Transfer Inc.

James Morton Beecher, Hackett, Beecher & Hart, Richard Lee Sessions, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Scott Galvanizing Co., Inc.

Benjamin Gould Porter, George, Hull & Porter, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Color Tech Inc. and Asko Processing Inc.

Joel Sherwood Summer, Univar Corp., Legal Dept., Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Univar Corp. and Pacific Resins & Chemicals Inc.

Scott A. Smith, Short, Cressman & Burgess, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Tree Island Steel Co. Ltd.

Terence K. McGee, Thomas Anderson Sherwood, McGee & Reno, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Continental Can Co.

Robert J. Downey, Law Offices of John Lockie, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Norfin Inc.

Norfin Inc., Donald L. Sneelman, c/o Herb Lakefish NF Corp., Seattle, Wash., pro se.

C. Stan Webert, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant Coastal Tank Cleaning Services Inc.

William D. Maer, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Anchor Post Products, Canron Inc. and Westak-North.

Shane Cornelius Carew, Ronald A. Franz, Carney, Stephenson, Badley, Smith & Spellman, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Quigg Bros-McDonald Inc., Jack Pinchev and Leah Pinchev.

Preston Niemi, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendant A J Zinda Co.

Jeffrey Lynn Carey, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Pozzi Bros. and Lumber Trucking Service.

James T. Johnson, Seattle, Wash., for third-party defendants Tacoma Hauling Inc., Tacoma Hauling/Gunter Bros. and Tacoma Hauling/Jack Creager Trucking.

Gary Michael Abolofia, Bellevue, Wash., for third-party defendant Culligan Water Service.

David Utevsky, Cynthia R. First, Foster Pepper & Shefelman, Seattle, Wash., for intervenor Hearst Corp.


ORDER DENYING MOTION OF BAYSIDE WASTE HAULING & TRANSFER, INC. FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

McGOVERN, District Judge.

The Ninth Circuit having recently clarified its position on successor liability under CERCLA in Louisiana-Pacific v. ASARCO, 909 F.2d 1260 (9th Cir.1990), Bayside Waste Hauling & Transfer, Inc. ("Bayside") again moves for partial summary judgment on the issue of successor liability. This court...

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