U.S. v. ALLIED-SIGNAL CORP.

Nos. C 83-5898 FMS, C 83-5896.

736 F.Supp. 1553 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. ALLIED-SIGNAL CORP., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

January 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney H. Hamblin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chief, Land & Natural Resources Div., Charles M. O'Connor, Asst. U.S. Atty., F. Henry Habicht II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land and Natural Resources Div., Barry S. Sandals, Sr. Counsel, Richard L. Beal, Environmental Enforcement Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., Brian Faller, William W. Westernfield, III, Karen Dworkin, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C. (J. Martin Robertson, Dept. of Navy, Office of Gen. Counsel, Litigation Office, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for U.S.

Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., Anthony van Westrum, Zach Miller, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver, Colo., for ESI Chemicals, Inc.

Daniel Leach, Wayne Collins, Leach, McGreevy, Eliassen & Leach, San Francisco, Cal., for Joe Sobotka and Wilda Sobotka.

Robert Crow, Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe, Oakland, Cal., Norman LaForce, Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe, Oakland, Cal., for Chemical & Pigment Co.

Barry D. Hovis, Harry Endsley, Adams, Sadler & Hovis, San Francisco, Cal., for O.E. Cooper, James Cooper, and Elizabeth Cooper.

Judith A. Wenker, Leslie C. Randall, Texaco, Inc., Universal City, Cal., Gregory R. McClintock, Patrick W. Dennis, McClintock, Weston, Beenshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & Maccui, Los Angeles, Cal., for Getty Oil Co. and Texaco, Inc.

Michael L. Whitcomb, Asst. Gen. Sol., Union Pacific R. Co., Los Angeles, Cal., for Sacramento Northern R. Co.

Barry P. Goode, John D. Edgcomb, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, Cal., for Allied Chemical Corp. and Allied-Signal Corp.

Ann Fingarette Hasse, Charles Ferguson & Co., Inc., San Francisco, Cal., David W. Long, Southern Pacific Transp. Co., San Francisco, Cal., John Ernster, Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern Pacific Transp. Co.

John F. Barg, Deborah J. Schmall, Elyse Axell, James A. Bruen, Ronald C. Hausmunn, Gretchen A. Beck, Landels, Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, Cal., for Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Co., Santa Fe Industries, Inc., Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. and Santa Fe Southern Pacific Foundation.

Frederick Mahan, James Peterson, H. Renton Rolph, Mahan & Rolph, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., Patrick Charles Smith, Nancy Aptekar, John F. Meadows, Meadows, Smith, Lenker, Sterling & Davis, San Francisco, Cal., for ESI Chemicals, Inc.

Anthony Van Westrum, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver, Colo, John MacDonald Smith, DAvid W. Long, San Francisco, Cal., John H. Ernster, Clay M. Smith, Michael L. Whitcomb, Jeff S. Asay, James C.EC Barclay, Los Angeles, Cal., Gregory R. McClintock, Patrick W. Dennis, Thomas J.P. McHenry, McClintock, Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish, Los Angeles, Cal., Mauryne S. Fennell, Leslie C. Randall, Judith Wenker, Universal City, Cal., for Getty Oil Co.


ORDER

FERN M. SMITH, District Judge.

This case concerns efforts on the part of plaintiff, the United States Navy, to recover the costs of cleaning up portions of the Concord Naval Station which once were owned by defendants, later were acquired by the Navy via eminent domain, and now are known to contain toxic pollutants. In 1983, plaintiff brought this action for recovery of clean-up costs pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation...

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