RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC RY. CO. v. DAVIS IND. INC.

Civ. No. 90-1619-A.

787 F.Supp. 572 (1992)

RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Virginia corporation, Plaintiff, v. DAVIS INDUSTRIES, INC., et al., Defendants, v. CARRIER CORPORATION, et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

March 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven K. Davidson, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., for Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R. Co.

Mark D. Cummings, Sher & Cummings, Arlington, Va., John J. Mullenholz, Mullenholz & Brimsek, Washington, D.C., for Davis Ind. and Benjamin Ettleman.

Thomas J. O'Brien, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, Washington, D.C., for Potomac Elec. Power Co.

Matthew J. Regan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., Richard Parker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., for Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S.

Thomas J. Curcio, Alexandria, Va., for Fred Bonnett.

John Hardin Young, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, D.C., for Burton Davis and Marvin Davis.

Robert G. Watt, Watt, Tieder, Killian & Hoffar, McLean, Va., for M.C. Dean Elec. Contracting, Inc.

William Gerard McMurtrie, William McMurtrie, Fairfax, Va., for E.C. Ernst Co.

Paul Terrence O'Grady, James Q. Pope, Falls Church, Va., for Seal & Co., Inc.

Roger C. Jones, Braude & Margulies, Washington, D.C., for Singleton Elec. Corp.

Patrick Charles Jordan, Allen, Johnson, Alexander & Karp, Washington, D.C., for Truland Systems Corp.

Brian L. Buniva, Mezzullo & McCandlish, Richmond, Va., for Virginia Elec. and Power Corp.

Andrew Greenleaf Lawrence, Fairfax, Va., for University of Maryland.

Charles Morton English, Jr., Ober, Kaler, Grimes, & Shriver, Washington, D.C., for American Tel. & Tel. Corp. and Western Elect. Co., Inc.

Richard Franklin Neel, Jr., Dewey Ballantine, Ellen Tenenbaum, Washington, D.C., for Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of District of Columbia.

Patrick Michael McSweeney, McSweeney, Burtch and Crump, Richmond, Va., Ara Loris Tramblian, Arlington, Va., for Arlington County of Virginia.

Dennis R. Carluzzo, Montedonico & Mason, Fairfax, Va., for Howard University.

Patricia Fettmann, Fettmann & Tolchin, Fairfax, Va., for the District of Columbia.

Marshal Heindel Brooks, Stohlman, Beuchert, Egan & Smith Chartered, Washington, D.C., for Nat. R.R. Passenger Corp. and Washington Terminal R.R., Inc.

Janet R. Landesberg, Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, Washington, D.C., for Washington Metro Area Transit Authority.

Douglas Spaulding, Reed, Smith, Shaw, McClay, Washington, D.C., for Carrier Corp.

C. James Williams, III, Morris & Morris, Richmond, Va., for Whirlpool Corp., Arkla Ind. and Monsanto Co.

Arthur Pearlstein, Beltsville, Md., for United Rigging & Hauling.

Ellen R. Lokker, McLean, Va., for Carrier Corp.

Barbara Wahl, Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D.C., for Washington Gas & Light.

James Anklam, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., for Dynaelectric Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

In this case, a landowner, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company ("RF & P") sued numerous defendants for dumping hazardous waste at its scrap recycling and disposal site, claiming the defendants were liable for cleaning up the site under CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. § 9607, and Virginia common law. One of the defendants, Washington Gas, allegedly sent to RF & P's site gas air conditioners that leaked...

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