U.S. v. AVONDALE INDUSTRIES, INC.

Civ. A. No. 89-957-B.

841 F.Supp. 180 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America v. AVONDALE INDUSTRIES, INC., et al.

United States District Court, M.D. Louisiana.

October 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Raymond Lamonica, U.S. Atty., M.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA and Molly E. Hall, Washington, DC, for the U.S.

Robert Earl Holden, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Avondale Industries, Inc.

James Rodney Chastain, Jr., Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, LA, for BASF Corp., BP Exploration, Brown & Root, Inc., Browning-Ferris Industries Chemical Services, Inc., Cenac Towing Co., Ciba-Geigy Corp., Cos-Mar Co., Ethyl Corp., Exxon Corp., Gatx Terminals Corp., Geosource, Inc., Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., Mobil Oil Corp., Port Allen Marine Services, Shell Oil Co., Southern Scrap Material Co., Ltd., Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., and Trinity Industries.

B. Richard Moore, Jr., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Dennery, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, New Orleans, LA, for St. Paul Ins. Co.

Richard N. Dicharry, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, LA, for Certain Underwriters Lloydd's London and Firemen's Fund Ins.

Samuel M. Rosamond, III, Boggs, Loehn and Rodrigue, New Orleans, LA, for Commercial Union Ins. Co. and Employers Commercial Union Ins.

Michael L. Berry, Jr., Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Joc Oil Exploration.

Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA, for Cooper Glider Chemical Co., Inc.

Floyd A. Wisner, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, LA, for Style & Companies.

Eric Earl Jarrell, Nesser, King & LeBlanc, New Orleans, LA, for American Marine Corp. and Don Cole.

Richard A. Curry, McGlinchey Stafford Lang, Baton Rouge, LA, Freedman's Ship Yard.

Glennon P. Everett, Everett & Everett, Crowley, LA, for Frenchies Oil Salvage, Inc.

Morton H. Katz, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, New Orleans, LA, and Thomas H. Brown, and Brian M. Clark, Birmingham, AL, for Harrison Bros. Dry Dock and Repair Yard, Inc.

Thomas C. Cowan, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, LA, for Koch-Ellis Barge and Ship Service, Inc. and Koch-Ellis Marine Contractors, Inc.

John I. Goodwin, Thomas James Wagner, Wagner, Bagot & Gleason, and Francis Philip Accardo, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Highlands Ins. Co.

Charles C. Culotta, Jr., Patterson, LA, for Marine Vacuum, Inc.

Jan T. Van Loon, Normand F. Pizza, Brook, Morial, Cassibry, Pizza & Adcock, New Orleans, LA, and Jon C. Adcock, Brook, Morial, Cassibry, Pizza & Adcock, Baton Rouge, LA, for Robert C. Wolff.

Homer Ed Barousse, Jr., Edwards, Stefanski, Barousse, Cunningham, Stefanski & Zaunbrecher, Crowley, LA, for Hansbrough Energy Systems.

William Alexander Porteous, III, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, LA, for Arkwright Mut. Ins.


RULING ON THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS

POLOZOLA, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and for failure to prosecute filed by Harrison Brothers Dry Dock and Repair Yard, Inc. ("Harrison"). For reasons which follow, the Court finds that each motion should be denied.

The United States brought this action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability...

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