OHM REMEDIATION SERVICES v. EVANS COOPERAGE CO.

No. 96-30714.

116 F.3d 1574 (1997)

OHM REMEDIATION SERVICES, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Cross Defendant-Appellant, v. EVANS COOPERAGE CO., INC., Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Counter Claimant-Cross Defendant Counter Defendant-Appellee, Louisiana Oil Recycle/Reuse, Inc.; Coastal Leasing Services, Inc.; Henrietta McCrary; Francis' Drilling Fluid, Inc.; Power Tool Repair Service, Inc.; American Inspection and Testing Laboratories, Inc.; American Manufacturing Company, Inc.; Atlas Processing Co.; Aviation Laboratories Inc.; Boassa International Inc.; Cabot Corporation; Caleb Brett USA; Castrol Inc.; Catalyst Recovery of Louisiana Inc.; Cherry Picker Parts & Service Company, Inc.; Cheyenne Services, Inc.; Conoco Inc.; Daniel Oil Tools Co.; De Nova Oil and Gas, Drilling Measurements Inc.; Dravo Lime Company; Dresser Industries Inc.; Dwaca Enterprises; Ebasco Services, Inc.; Fruehauf Trailer Corporation; Howell Industries; Iew Systems Inc.; Independent Tank Cleaning Services Inc.; Ingersoll Rand Co.; Koch Service Inc.; KRC Southern Inc.; L & B Transportation; Louisiana Bulk Carriers Inc.; Matlack Inc.; Quality Diesel Service Inc.; Richard Oil Co.; Rubicon Incorporated; Sabine Manufacturing; Saybolt Inc.; Schuylkill Metals; Southern Natural Gas Company; Stupp Brothers Bridge and Iron Company; Tube Alloy Corp.; Valley Electric Membership Corporation; Verret Shipyard Inc.; Westlake Polymers Corp., Third Party Defendants-Cross Defendants-Appellees, Atlas Wireline; Dresser Pump; Geismar Marine Inc.; Greenville Johnny of Louisiana Inc.; Intercoastal Truck; LA Interstate Liquids Inc.; N L McCullough Industries; Novi Chemical; Southern Pipe; Southern Scrap Metals Inc., Appellees, Acadian Ambulance Service Inc., Third Party Defendant-Cross Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Cross Claimant-Counter Claimant-Counter Defendant-Appellee, T T Barge Cleaning Inc., Third Party Defendant-Cross Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Cross Claimant-Counter Claimant-Appellee, Florida Parishes Voc-Tech School, Third Party Defendant-Cross Claimant-Counter Claimant-Cross Defendant-Appellee, CCL Custom Manufacturing Inc.; Cedar Chemical Corp.; BP Exploration and Oil Inc.; Constar Plastics Inc.; DSI Transports Inc.; International Paper Company; Louisiana Industries; Occidental Chemical Corporation; Oxy USA Inc.; Port Allen River Plant Inc., Third Party Defendants-Counter Claimants-Cross Defendants-Appellees, Coastal Fluid Technologies Inc.; Deep South Chemical; MacKenzie Corporation, Third Party Defendants-Appellees, Koch Service Inc., Third Party Defendant-Cross Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen D. Darden, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, LA, Steven Jay Levine, Baton Rouge, LA, for OHM Remediation Services.

Michael D. Peytavin, Daniel A. Ranson, Windhorst, Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion, Gretna, LA, for Evans Cooperage Co., Inc.

Edward W. McCrary, Baton Rouge, LA, pro se.

John David Ziober, Ashley Culbertson Atchison, Shockey & Ziober, Baton Rouge, LA, for Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.

Elizabeth Haecker Ryan, New Orleans, LA, for T T Barge Cleaning, Inc.

Homer Ed Barousse, Jr., Barousse & Craton, Crowley, LA, for Francis' Drilling Fluid, Inc.

Ian Douglas Lindsey, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, Florida Parishes Voc-Tech School.

Robert A. Redwine, New Orleans, LA, for American Mfg. Co., Inc.

W. Craig Wyman, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Atlas Processing Co., Conoco, Inc. and Southern Nat. Gas Co.

Robert E. Holden, New Orleans, LA, for Atlas Processing Co., Southern Nat. Gas Co. and Valley Elec. Membership Corp.

Anastassios Triantaphyllis, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Houston, TX, for Aviation Laboratories, Inc.

Clarence F. Favret, III, Favret, Demarest, Russo & Lutkewitte, New Orleans, LA, for Boassa Intern., Inc.

Wade P. Webster, New Orleans, LA, for BP Exploration and Oil, Inc.

Lawrence R. Plunkett, Jr., S. Daniel Meeks, Reich, Meeks & Treadaway, Metairie, LA, for Caleb Brett, USA.

Eric O. Shuman, McGlinchey, Stafford & Lang, New Orleans, LA, for Castrol, Inc.

Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr., Nesser, King & LeBlanc, New Orleans, LA, for CCL Custom Mfg., Inc.

Melissa M. Cresson, Sandra Louise Edwards, James Randy Young, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, Leonard Louis Kilgore, III, Baton Rouge, LA, for Cedar Chemical Corp., Deep South Chemical, DSI Transports, Inc., Intern. Paper Co., Occidental Chemical Corp. and Oxy USA, Inc.

Mark Randal Callender, Baton Rouge, LA, for Cherry Picker Parts & Service Co., Inc.

Thomas M. McNamara, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Conoco, Inc.

J. Michael Johnson, New Orleans, LA, for Constar Plastics, Inc.

Eva M. Fromm, Heather M. Corken, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, Patrick A. Juneau, Jr., The Juneau Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Daniel Oil Tools Co.

Fred W. Davis, Strain, Dennis, Mayhall & Bates, Lafayette, LA, for De Nova Oil and Gas, Drilling Measurements, Inc., IEW Systems, Inc. and Port Allen River Plant, Inc.

William P. Stubbs, Jr., J. Kevin Stelly, William Stubbs Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Drilling Measurements, Inc.

Joseph Thomas Hamrick, Jr., Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, LA, for Dravo Lime Co.

Boyd Allen Bryan, Lafayette, LA, for Dresser Industries, Inc., Ingersoll Rand Co. and Dresser Pump.

Ronald A. Johnson, Bettye A. Barrios, Johnson, Johnson, Barrios & Yacoubian, New Orleans, LA, for Ebasco Services, Inc.

Margaret N. Strand, Bayh Connaughton & Malone, Washington, DC, for Fruehauf Trailer Corp.

William Boyce Monk, Lake Charles, LA, for Howell Industries.

Paula M. Wellons, Taylor, Wellons & Politz, New Orleans, LA, for Independent Tank Cleaning Services, Inc.

Michael Andrew Chernekoff, Judith V. Windhorst, Jones, Walker, New Orleans, LA, for KRC Southern, Inc. and Rubicon, Inc.

Alexis A. St. Amant, II, Baton Rouge, LA, for L & B Transp.

Warren E. Byrd, II, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Industries.

William J. Hamlin, Joell M. Keller, Bordelon, Hamlin and Theriot, New Orleans, LA, for Matlack, Inc.

Thomas J. Smith, New Orleans, LA, for Port Allen River Plant, Inc.

Michael Ray Mangham, Dawn Mayeux Fuqua, Mangham & Davis, Lafayette, LA, for QLTY Diesel SVC, Inc.

Theresa Rohr Kelley, Butler & Binion, Houston, TX, for Saybolt, Inc.

James C. Carver, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Schuylkill Metals.

John Conway Miller, Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, LA, for Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co.

George Febiger Riess, New Orleans, LA, for Tube Alloy Corp.

Henry Cole Gahagan, Jr., Natchitoches, LA, for Valley Elec. Membership Corp.

Berlon Michael Mauldin, Baton Rouge, LA, for Westlake Polymers Corp.

Michael J. Herpin, J. Isaac Funderburk, Abbeville, LA, for Coastal Fluid Technologies, Inc.

Robert J. Young, Jr., Young, Richaud & Myers, New Orleans, LA, for Koch Service, Inc.

Before EMILIO M. GARZA, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

OHM Remediation Services appeals the district court's dismissal of its action to recover response costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9607 and 9613. In a case posing two issues of first impression in the federal courts of appeal regarding the response cost recovery and contribution provisions of CERCLA, we reverse and remand.

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