U.S. v. BASF CORP.

No. 96-75279.

990 F.Supp. 907 (1998)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. BASF CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

January 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Bentkover, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Washington, DC, David G. Hetzel, Ronald W. Zdrojeski, LeBouf, Lamb, Greene, & MacRae, LLP, Hartford, CT, Paul S. Lewandowski, Butzel Long, Detroit, MI, Thomas M. Woods, Freeman, McKenrie, Mt Clemens, MI, for Plaintiffs.

Ruben Acosta, David H. Fink, Fink Zausmer, P.C., Farmington Hills, MI, for Waste Management Inc. & Chemical Waste Mgmt.

Phil Adkinson, Adkinson & Need, Bloomfield, MI, for Village of Leonard.

Richard J. Bahls, Bahls & Shamblin, Lapeer, MI, for Village of Metamora.

Leonard K. Berman, Hainer, Demorest & Berman, PC, Troy, MI, for Bridgestone/Firestone.

Karl S. Bourdeau, Robert Brager, Susan H. Ephron, Bevendge & Diamond, Washington, DC, Ulysses S. Boykin, Matthew R. Halpin, Lewis, Clay & Munday, Detroit, MI, for General Electric.

Kathryn A. Buckner, Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess, Deitch & Serlin PC, Southfield, MI, for Metal Cote Chemical, Michlin Chemical, Paint Work, Inc. & Dunlop Collision.

David J. Carney, William E. Coughlin, Kevin P. Hallquist, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, Cleveland, OH, for Dunbarton Corp.

Brian Clark, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Oak Brook, IL, George F. Curran, III, Stephen E. Handleman, Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho PC, Farmington Hills, MI, for Sawicki & Sons.

Charles M. Denton, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for Village of Metamora, Addison Township, Imlay City, Lapeer County Rd Commission, Lapeer Vocational Technical School, Oxford Township, Village of Dryden & Village of Oxford.

Brian D. Devlin, Asst. Attorney General, MI Dept of Attorney General, Environmental Protection Div., Lansing, MI, Frederick J. Dindoffer, Bodman Longley & Dahling, LLP, Detroit, MI, for Metamora Industries, Inc., Abitbi-Price Corp.

Donald R. Dixon, Ferndale, MI, Doug A. Donnell, Mika, Myers, Beckett & Jones, Grand Rapids, MI, for Gage Products.

Christopher J. Dunsky, HonigmanMiller Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, MI, for Trayco, Inc., Textron, Inc.

Michael S. Elder, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Albany, NY, Gary S. Eller, Boothman Hebert & Eller, Detroit, MI, Thomas J. Fayfer, Paul F. Bohn, Jeffrey S. Jones, Fausone, Taylor & Bohn LLP, Northville, MI, for Stricker Paint.

William D. Gilbride, Jr., Abbott, Nicholson Quilter, Essahki & Youngblood, Detroit, MI, Carol W. Grombala, Kohl Secrest Wardle Lynch Clark & Hampton, Farmington Hills, MI, for Precision Coatings.

Michael J. Hainer, Mark S. Demorest, Hainer & Demorest, Troy, MI, Christopher A. Hajek, Gault Davidson, Flint, MI, for Van Etten Disposal.

Brian Herschfus, Wood, Kull, Herschfus, Lay & Kull, Farmington Hills, MI, for American Jetway.

Leslie Hulse, General Electric, Corporate Environmental Programs, Albany, NY, for General Electric.

Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, Knoxville, TN, for Firestone Tire.

Nancy L. Kahn, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC, Farmington Hills, MI, for Frankel Metal.

Michael Kay, Dow Chemical Company, Legal Department, Midland, MI, for Dow Chemical.

Daniel P. King, Pedersen, Keenan, King, Wachseberg & Andrzejak, PC, Farmington Hills, MI, for DeSoto, Argo Paint & Chemical, & Argus Paint Co.

John R. LaParl, Jr., Smith, LaParl & Mequio, PC, Portage, MI, for Township of Metamora.

Gary R. Letcher, Arthur A. Schulcz, Sr., The Harker Firm, Washington, DC, for Akzo Nobel Coatings.

Jeffrey J. Mayer, Raymond & Prokop, PC, Southfield, MI, for BF Goodrich.

Susan E. Morrison, VanderKloot, Rentrop, Martin, Haynes & Morrison, PC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Oxford Township.

Michael J. Nolan, Kohl, Harris & Peters, PC, Metamora, MI, for Bradford Tool & Die and Bushman Disposal.

Dustin P. Ordway, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Grand Rapids, MI, for Arkwright, Inc.

Bernard P. Paige, Patrick J. Ennis, Colombo & Colombo, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Dow Chemical.

Neil T. Peters, Kohl, Harris & Peters, PC, Metamora, MI, for Metamora Township.

Donald H. Poniatwoski, Nowak, Poniatowski & Morgan, PC, Lapeer, MI, for Lapeer County Press.

Scott R. Powell, Jonathan P. Gerisch, Powell & Gerisch, Ann Arbor, MI, Mary S. Rigdon, U.S. Attorney's Office, Detroit, MI, for Red Spot Paint.

Jamie Schiff, Textron, Inc., Providence, RI, for Textron, Inc./Ex-Cell-O.

Devin S. Schindler, Warner, Norcross & Judd LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for Standard Detroit Paint.

Eugene E. Smany, Valerie P. Simmons, John D. Tully, Warmer, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, MI, Donald E. Conley, McDonnell, Conley & Neveu, Bloomfield Hills, MI, James R. Temple, Farmington Hills, MI, for Kay Screen Printing.

James R. Temple, Farmington Hills, MI, for Three R Indus., Inc.

Hugh Thomas, Francis J. Newton, Jr., Berry, Moorman, King & Hudson, Detroit, MI, for Acme Precision Products.

L. Nicholas Treinen, Lake Orion, MI, for Mantex Corporation.

Fred R. Wagner, Beveridge & Diamond, PC, Washington, DC, for Dow Chemical.

Thomas M. Woods, Freeman McKenzie, Mt. Clemens, MI, Robert Young, King, Young & Billmeyer, Allen Park, MI, Sherwin E. Zamler, Susan Sadler, Dawanda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Seaman Industries & Cook Paint & Varnish.

Frances M. Zizila, Gregory L. Sukys, Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC.


OPINION and ORDER

FEIKENS, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

United States of America ("plaintiff") filed its complaint in this case on November 18, 1996. The complaint was brought pursuant to Section 1071 of the Comprehensive Environment Response Compensation Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., a statutory provision that provides plaintiff with the right to sue responsible parties...

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