TOWN OF OYSTER BAY v. OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 94-CV-0694 (FB).

987 F.Supp. 182 (1997)

TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, Plaintiff, v. OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION, The Marmon Corporation, Columbia Corrugated Container Corporation, Great American Industries, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of PLC Enterprises, Inc., G.A. Corrugated Corporation Great American Corrugated Container Corporation, Lin Pac, Inc., Lin Pac Containers International, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lin Pac Group, Ltd., Lin Pac Corrugated Containers Corporation, Lin Pac Containers Limited, Grumman Corporation, Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Jakobson Shipyard, Inc., Long Island Lighting Company, Konica Imaging U.S.A., Inc., Kollmorgen Corporation and Photocircuits Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

December 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP by Peter R. Paden, Philip E. Karmel, New York, NY, for Plaintiff Town of Oyster Bay.

Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna by John Hanna, Albany, NY, for Defendant Occidental Chemical Corporation.

Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan by Richard F. Ricci, Roseland, NJ, for Defendant The Marmon Corp.

Levene, Gouldin & Thompson by Michael R. Wright, Vestal, NY, for Great American Industries, Inc., G.A. Corrugated Corp, Great American Corrugated Container Corp.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker by Kevin C. Logue, New York, NY; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker by Charles A. Patrizia, for Defendants Lin Pac, Inc., Lin Pac Containers International, Ltd., Lin Pac Corrugated Containers Corp., Lin Pac Containers Ltd.

Hannoch Weisman, P.C. by Irvin M. Freilich, Roseland, NJ, for Defendants Grumman Corporation, Grumman Aerospace Corporation.

White & Case by Paul Milmed, New York, NY, for Defendant Jakobson Shipyard, Inc.

Arnold & Porter by Michael B. Gerrard, New York, NY, for Defendant Long Island Lighting Co.

David R. Case, Washington, D.C., for Defendant Konica Imaging, U.S.A., Inc.

Crowell & Moring, by Robert C. Davis, Jr., Washington, DC; Kensington & Ressler, P.C. by Henry Korn, New York, NY, for Defendants Kollmorgen Corporation, Photocircuits Corporation.


                              TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTION ............................................................. 188

  BACKGROUND ............................................................... 188
    I. The Landfill ........................................................ 188
   II. The Groundwater Contamination and the Town's Response ..........

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