SPELLS v. HOUSING AUTH. OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 92-CA-0399.

612 So.2d 920 (1993)

Willie Mae SPELLS and Pearlie Stevenson, et al. v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS, 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 plaintiffs/appellants.

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/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.

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.

Tenants of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) initiated this class action against HANO seeking a mandatory injunction to compel it to carry out an abatement program for lead based paint in its rental units. HANO filed a third party demand against a number of paint companies and manufacturers of lead pigment (hereinafter appellees) to recover the cost of the abatement program. They filed exceptions of res judicata and no cause of action...

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