CHARTER TP. OF OSHTEMO v. AMERICAN CYANAMID CO.

No. 1:92:CV:843.

898 F.Supp. 506 (1995)

CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF OSHTEMO; City of Kalamazoo; Kalamazoo County; and The Upjohn Company, Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY; et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.

May 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Reed, Reed, Stover & O'Connor, PC, Kalamazoo, MI, for Charter Township of Oshtemo.

Robert H. Cinabro, Office of the City Attorney, Kalamazoo, MI, for City of Kalamazoo.

Duane T. Triemstra, Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners, Kalamazoo, MI, for Kalamazoo County.

Scott S. Brinkmeyer, Mika, Meyers, Beckett & Jones, P.L.C., Grand Rapids, MI, Martha J. Koster, Stephen M. Leonard, Lee H. Glickenhaus, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Boston, MA, for UpJohn Co.

Thomas W. Daggett, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, IL, for American Cyanamid Company.

Charles M. Denton, Michael F. Kelly, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, MI, for Arco Industries Corporation.

Paul Theodore Vlachos, Vlachos & Vlachos, PC, Kalamazoo, MI, for Balkema, Inc. and Woolf Excavating, Inc.

Dustin P. Ordway, John L. Teeples, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Grand Rapids, MI, for Borden Chemical, Inc., Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and Motor Wheel Corp.

Todd R. Dickinson, Tolley Vandenbosch & Walton, PC, Grand Rapids, MI, for Brunswick Corporation.

Robert A. Soltis, Ford, Kriekard, Domeny & Byrne, PC, Portage, MI, for City of Parchment.

Alan H. Silverman, Silverman, Rodbard & Smith, PC, Kalamazoo, MI, Michael H. Perry, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster, PC, Lansing, MI, for City Star Service, Inc.

Mary M. Bittence, Patricia A. Poole, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, OH, for Eaton Corporation.

Steven C. Kohl, Howard & Howard, PC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Fabri-Kal Corporation.

John A. Ferroli, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Grand Rapids, MI, for General Motors Corporation.

Charles M. Denton, George B. Davis, Michael F. Kelly, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, MI, for Hydreco, Inc. and Schawk, Inc.

Charles M. Denton, George B. Davis, Michael F. Kelly, John N. Cooper, II, Oosterbaan, Cooper, Peterson & Beck, Kalamazoo, MI, for Illinois Envelope, Inc.

John H. Hess, Hess & Hess, PC, Grand Rapids, MI, Steven P. Means, Michael, Best & Friedrich, Madison, WI, for International Paper.

James R. Nelson, Nelson & Kreuger, PC, Grand Rapids, MI, Brian J. Jordan, Michigan Bell Telephone Co., Detroit, MI, for Michigan Bell Telephone Company.

Gary A. Trepod, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Lansing, MI, Christopher J. Dunsky, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, MI, for Michigan Disposal Service Corporation.

Sharan Lee Levine, Levine & Levine, Kalamazoo, MI, Kathryn Browning Fuller, Beveridge & Diamond, PC, New York, NY, for Penn Corporation.

Randall S. Schau, Gemrich, Moser, Bowser & Lohrmann, Kalamazoo, MI, for Prab Robots, Inc. and Taplin Enterprises, Inc.

Lynda E. Thomsen, Thomas M. Canny, Bauckham, Sparks, Rolfe & Thomsen, Kalamazoo, MI, for Richland Township.

Steven C. Kohl, Howard & Howard, PC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, William H. Harbeck, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, WI, for Simpson Plainwell Paper Company.

David H. Fink, Avery K. Williams, Cooper, Fink & Zausmer, PC, Farmington Hills, MI, for Waste Management of Michigan, Inc.


OPINION

ENSLEN, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the Court is to determine how "orphan shares" of liability will be apportioned in this litigation. On January 6, 1995, Magistrate Judge Doyle A. Rowland established a briefing schedule for the parties to address the issue, which was framed by the parties themselves. The resolution of this issue is believed to be pivotal toward resolving the litigation...

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