STATE OF MO. v. INDEPENDENT PETROCHEMICAL CORP.

No. 96-1001.

104 F.3d 159 (1997)

STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Appellee, United States of America, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INDEPENDENT PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION; Russell Martin Bliss; Jerry-Russell Bliss, Inc., Defendants, Syntex Laboratories, Inc.; Syntex Agribusiness, Inc.; Syntex U.S.A., Inc.; Syntex Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, St. Louis County, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Russell Martin BLISS; Independent Petrochemical Corporation, Defendants, United States of America; Syntex, Defendants-Appellees. STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Russell Martin BLISS, Defendant. STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SYNTEX U.S.A., INC., Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Russell Martin BLISS, Defendant. (Two Cases.)

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Schiffer, Washington, DC (Edward J. Shawaker, John A. Bryson, Steven R. Baer and Peter A. Appel, on the brief), for U.S.

Thomas B. Weaver, St. Louis, MO (Edwin L. Noel, St. Louis, MO, Kent A. Stormer and Anne Williams, Palo Alto, CA, on the brief), for Syntex Laboratories, Inc.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

St. Louis County appeals from the district court's1 denial of its motion to intervene and from the court's ruling on the Syntex defendants' motion to construe and enforce compliance with the Consent Decree in connection with the cleanup of toxic waste in Times Beach, Missouri. We affirm.

Various aspects of this litigation have been pending in federal court since 1984, when the United States commenced a civil...

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