HOUSING AUTH. N.O. v. STANDARD PAINT & VARNISH CO.

No. 92-CA-0328.

612 So.2d 916 (1993)

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. STANDARD PAINT AND VARNISH COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied March 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy F. Amedee, Jr., O'Keefe, O'Keefe & Bernstein, New Orleans, for plaintiff/appellant.

A.R. Christovich, Jr., C. Edgar Cloutier, Ellen B. Woody, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, Lawrence V. Stein, William H. Voth, Maureen E. McGirr, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, and Donald A. Bright, Dean M. Harris, ARCO-Legal Dept., Los Angeles, CA, for Atlantic Richfield Co.

Jonathan C. McCall, Charles L. Chassaignac, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, and Paul M. Pohl, Charles H. Moellenberg, Jr., Jones, Day Reavis & Pogue, Pittsburgh, PA, for The Sherwin-Williams Co.

John C. Reynolds, Hal C. Welch, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, and C. Marc Whitehead, Janie S. Mayeron, Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN, for SCM Corporation/The Glidden Co.

Frederick W. Bradley, Kathleen F. Ketchum, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, and Timothy D. Knaus, Kirkland & Ellis, Denver, CO, for NL Industries, Inc.

Monica T. Surprenant, Beverly K. Baudoin, Baldwin & Haspel, New Orleans, and Mary Morrissey Sullivan, Sullivan, Sullivan & Pinta, Boston, MA, for the Lead Industries Ass'n.

Stephen N. Elliott, Mickey S. deLaup, Jeffrey K. Warwick, Bernard, Cassisa, Saporito & Elliott, Metairie, for PPG Industries, Inc.

Michael C. Darnell, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, for Hoechst-Celanese Corp. and Devoe & Reynolds Co., Inc.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and BYRNES and PLOTKIN, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

This is a suit by the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) against a number of paint manufacturers and lead pigment manufacturers for the costs associated with the removal of lead based paint from its apartments. The trial court sustained exceptions of prescription filed by defendants. HANO has appealed. The issues are whether HANO had sufficient knowledge to bring its suit before it prescribed and...

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