U.S. v. NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 80-489 LON.

769 F.Supp. 591 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. NEW CASTLE COUNTY, William C. Ward, Stauffer Chemical Company and ICI Americas Inc., Defendants. NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Stauffer Chemical Company and ICI Americas Inc., Defendants/Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. AVON PRODUCTS, INC., NVF Company, The Budd Company, Hercules, Incorporated, Specialty Composites Corporation, Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc., Diamond Shamrock, American Hoechst Corporation, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Motor Wheel Corporation, General Motors Corporation, Chrysler Corporation, Amoco Chemical Corporation, Keysor-Century Corporation, Koppers Company, Inc., Chloramone Corporation, FMC Corporation, Allied Corporation, Westvaco Corporation, Wilmington Chemical Corporation, Gates Engineering, Atlantic Aviation Corporation, Kennecott Corporation, Champlain Cable Corporation, Ametek, Inc., State of Delaware and Harvey & Harvey, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

June 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Andrews, Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del. (Andrew Goldman, U.S. E.P.A., Philadelphia, Pa., William A. Hutchins and Nancy Flickinger, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for plaintiff U.S.

B. Wilson Redfearn of Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, Del. (George J. Weiner, Paul M. Honigberg, Patrick O. Cavanaugh and Donavee A. Berger of Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Sheppard, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant/third-party plaintiff New Castle County.

Richard E. Poole and James F. Burnett of Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for defendant William C. Ward.

Jeffrey B. Bove of Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, Del. (John W. Wilmer, Jr. of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Washington, D.C., Wendy J. Tish of Stauffer Chemical Co., Westport, Conn. of counsel), for defendant/third-party plaintiff Stauffer Chemical Co.

Joseph C. Kelly and Frederick Moore of ICI Americas, Inc., Wilmington, Del. (Robert Hayes, Denis V. Brenan and Glen R. Stuart of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa. of counsel), for defendant/third-party plaintiff ICI Americas Inc.

David R. Hodas, Wilmington, Del. (J. Brian Molloy of Piper & Marbury, Washington D.C., of counsel), for third-party defendant Avon Products, Inc.

James T. McKinstry of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendants NVF Co., General Motors Corp. and Diamond Shamrock.

J.R. Julian, Wilmington, Del. (Jennifer Berke of Kelly, Harrington, McLaughlin & Foster, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant The Budd Co.

Henry N. Herndon, Jr. of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del. (Kevin E. Walsh of Hercules Inc., of counsel), for third-party defendant Hercules, Inc.

James F. Bailey, Jr. of James F. Bailey, Jr. & Associates, Wilmington, Del. (Joseph G. Manta, of Manta & Welge, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant Specialty Composites Corp.

Mark Minuti of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendant Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc.

C. Scott Reese of Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, Del. (Lorelei Joy Borland of Edwards & Angell, New York City, of counsel), for third-party defendant American Hoechst Corp.

Richard Allen Paul and Pamela Meitner of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendant E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

David C. Toomey and Robert F. Stewart, Jr. of Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, Pa., for third-party defendants Motor Wheel Corp. and Allied Corp.

Stephen P. Lamb of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wilmington, Del., for Wilmington Chemical Corp.

Kurt J. Doelze of Ferri & Doelze, Wilmington, Del. (Charles Kalinoski, Harry A. Short, Jr. of Liebert, Short, Fitzpatrick & Hirschland, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant Chrysler Corp.

Howard M. Berg of Howard M. Berg & Associates, Wilmington, Del. (Ronald J. Ganim of Amoco Corp., Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for third-party defendant Amoco Corporation.

William J. Wier, Jr. of Herlihy & Weir, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendant Keysor-Century Corp.

John C. Phillips, Jr. of Phillips & Snyder, Wilmington, Del. (Jill M. Blundon of Koppers Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant Koppers Co., Inc.

John W. Noble of Parkowski, Noble & Guerke, Dover, Del., for third-party defendant Chloramone Corp.

John C. Phillips, Jr. of Phillips & Snyder, Wilmington, Del. (William R. Herman, Bradford Whitman of Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant FMC Corp.

Thomas C. Hughes of Hughes & Sisk, Wilmington, Del. (Brigid E. Kenney of Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for Westvaco Corp.

James P. Collins of Healy & Collins, Wilmington, Del. (Blake A. Biles of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for third-party defendant Gates Engineering.

James T. McKinstry of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del. (Franklin S. Eyster, II of Atlantic Aviation Corp., of counsel), for third-party defendant Atlantic Aviation.

Robert J. Katzenstein of Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, Del. (Stephen W. Miller of Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for third-party defendant Kennecott Corp.

Henry N. Herndon, Jr. and Richard D. Kirk of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendants Champlain Cable Corp. and Ametek, Inc.

Robert R. Thompson, Dept. of Justice, Dover, Del., Kevin P. Maloney, Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendant State of Del.

James McC. Geddes of Ashby, McKelvie & Geddes, Wilmington, Del., for third-party defendant Harvey & Harvey.


OPINION

LONGOBARDI, Chief Judge.

Keysor Century Corporation ("Keysor"), a Third-Party Defendant in this CERCLA action, has moved the Court to reconsider its previous Opinion denying Keysor's motion for summary judgment. New Castle County, Stauffer Chemical Company and ICI Americas, Inc. ("Third-Party Plaintiffs"), Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs in the action, oppose a reconsideration of this Court's previous decision.

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