STATE OF CAL. v. SUMMER DEL CARIBE, INC.

No. C-89-3754 SAW.

821 F.Supp. 574 (1993)

The STATE OF CALIFORNIA, on behalf of the STATE DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES, Plaintiff, v. SUMMER DEL CARIBE, INC.; Dale E. Summer, an individual; Lynn J. Rodich, an individual; American National Can Co.; Beatrice Hunt/Wesson; Continental Can Co.; Crown Cork and Seal Co., Inc.; Del Monte Corp.; Castle & Cooke; Gencan Packaging, Inc.; Kern Foods Liquidating Trust; Nestle Food Corp.; Silgan Container Corp.; Pan Pacific Fisheries, Inc.; Pacific Coast Producers; Progresso Foods, Inc.; Starkist Foods, Inc.; The Sherwyn-Williams Co.; TriValley Growers Container Division, Inc.; United States Can Co.; TMA/Noracal, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

April 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Lungren, CA Atty. Gen., Susan Fiering, Deputy Atty. Gen., Oakland, CA, for plaintiff.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Sarah Flanagan, James Meeder, James Wyatt, Beveridge & Diamond, George Wolff, San Francisco, CA, Robert Crow, Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe, Oakland, CA, James P. Bennett, Kevin Haroff, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

BACKGROUND:

Plaintiff sues Defendants for the cost of an environmental cleanup under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. ("CERCLA"). Defendants are seventeen can companies, a metal reclamation facility, two individual officers of that facility, and a corporation that operated a site adjacent to the facility. The Court...

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