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G.J. LEASING CO., INC. v. UNION ELEC. CO.

No. 94-2972.

54 F.3d 379 (1995)

G.J. LEASING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, doing business as Cahokia Marine Service and S.I. Enterprises, L.P., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce D. Ryder (argued), Joseph G. Nassif, Jane Fedder Lazaroff, Coburn & Croft, St. Louis, MO, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul N. Venker, Thomas B. Weaver, Edwin L. Noel (argued), Susan B. Knowles, Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly, Davis & Dicus, St. Louis, MO, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, FLAUM, Circuit Judge, and McDADE, District Judge.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

G.J. Leasing — we can ignore the other plaintiff — filed this suit in 1991 against Union Electric, which in 1979 had sold a 52-acre tract containing a decommissioned power plant to G.J. Leasing's predecessor. The suit charges that the sale constituted the disposal (or the arranging of the disposal) of a hazardous substance, namely the asbestos in the plant. If this is right, then the seller, Union Electric, as the owner of the facility...

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