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PEOPLE v. NL INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 1-97-3463.

696 N.E.2d 729 (1998)

297 Ill. App.3d 297

231 Ill.Dec. 433

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NL INDUSTRIES, INC., Artra Group, Inc., John Harvey, Peter R. Harvey, American National Bank as Trustee under Trust Numbers 48495 and 55976, John Heckens, Goodwill Industries of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, LaSalle National Bank as Trustee under Trust Number 105679, M & T Enterprises, Inc., Lavon Tarr, Martin S. Bieber, Randall Polk, Individually and d/b/a Wrip Wrecking Co., Cole Taylor Bank Drovers No. 84141, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

June 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Robert Ruiz, Jennifer A. Whitfield, Frank J. Parkerson, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Robert J. Zaideman, David R. Nordwall, Epstein, Zaideman & Esrig, P.C., Chicago, Marcus A. Martin, Bartlit Beck Herman, Palenchar & Scott, Denver, CO, Kenneth E. Rechtoris, Maureen Ward Kirby, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, for Defendants-Appellees.

Justice COUSINS delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, the People of the State of Illinois and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, appeal from an order of the circuit court denying their motion to reinstate this civil action and to lift a stay of discovery against 13 defendants for alleged violations of the Environmental Protection Act (Ill.Rev. Stat.1987, ch. 1111/2, par. 1001 et seq. (now 415 ILCS 5/1 et seq. (West 1994))). Plaintiffs...

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