PNEUMO ABEX CORP. v. BESSEMER AND LAKE ERIE R. CO.

Civil Action No. 2:94cv716.

936 F.Supp. 1250 (1996)

PNEUMO ABEX CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BESSEMER AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

September 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Gorry, III, Taylor & Walker, P.C., Norfolk, VA, Joseph G. Homsy, John W. Roberts, Lea D. Leadbeater, Albert J. Birkbeck, Zevnik Horton Guibord & McGovern, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Pneumo Abex Corporation, Whitman Corporation.

Nancy Bennett Cherry, George Manuel Willson, City Attorney's Office, Portsmouth, VA, for City of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Joseph Price Massey, Susan Taylor Hansen, Katherine Susan Cross, Cooper, Spong & Davis, Portsmouth, VA, for Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Michael Henry Wojcik, Weinberg & Stein, Norfolk, VA, Louis A. Naugle, James Mizgala, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, PA, Jennifer Sarah Blank, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Washington, DC, for Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Inc., Union Railroad Co., Inc.

Thomas Scott McGraw, Faggert & Frieden, P.C., Chesapeake, VA, David Charles Bowen, Willcox & Savage, Norfolk, VA, Rodney B. Griffith, Consolidated Rail Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, for Consolidated Rail Corporation.

Robert H. Cox, Kevin A. Gaynor, George C. Hopkins, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for CSX Transportation, Inc., Fruit Growers Express Company, Inc.

Michael Dale Beverly, Joseph Marvin Spivey, III, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, Frederick Blair Wimbish, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Law Department, Norfolk, VA, for Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Mary Metil Grove, Christian, Barton, Epps, Brent and Chappell, Richmond, VA, Richard A. Porach, Pittsburgh, PA, for Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, Inc.

Channing Joseph Martin, William Rutherford Mauck, Jr., Heidi Abbott, Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, Richmond, VA, for Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co., Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs initiated this action in 1994 pursuant to sections 107 and 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9607, 9613 (1994), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ("CERCLA" or "the Act"), and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201(a) (1994). Plaintiffs...

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