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U.S. v. FRIEDLAND

No. 96-N-1213.

173 F.Supp.2d 1077 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America and the State of Colorado, Plaintiffs, Counter-Defendants, and Third-Party Defendants, v. Robert M. FRIEDLAND, Defendant, Counter-Defendant, Counter-Claimant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Aztec Minerals Corporation, an Ohio corporation; South Mountain Minerals Corporation and Gray Eagle Mining Corporation, a Colorado Corporation, Third-Party Defendants, Counter and Cross-Claimants, and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Bechtel Corporation; f/k/a Bechtel Civil, Inc., f/k/a Bechtel Civil & Minerals, Inc.; Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, a national banking association; Industrial Constructors Corporation, a Montana corporation; A.O. Smith Corporation, a New York corporation; Columbia Geostystems, Ltd., f/k/a Columbia Reservoir Systems, Ltd., an Alberta, Canada corporation; GSE Lining Technology, Inc. (as successor to Gundle Lining Systems, Inc., a/k/a Gundle Liner Systems, Inc.), a Delaware corporation; Klohn Leonoff, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Klohn Leonoff, Ltd., in its English form; and Klohn-Leonoff, Liee, in its alternative French form, a British Columbia, Canada Company, Third-Party Defendants and Cross-Claim Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

July 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Ann Mangone, Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, CO, Melissa K. Ward, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, David Dain, Lois J. Schiffer, John W. Sither, A. Kent Mayo, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Alan David Greenberg, Peter R. Mounsey, John N. Moscato, James D. Freeman, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Denver, CO, Richard B. Caschette, Kennedy & Christopher, P.C., Denver, CO, Leonard M. Gelman, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Enforcement, Denver, CO, Michael P. Carey, Richard T. Spriggs, U.S. Attorney's Office, Denver, CO, for U.S.

Cheryl A. Linden, Jane T. Feldman, Jennifer Lee Gimbel, Laura Marie Maresca, Attorney General's Office, General Legal Services Section,Denver, CO, Felicity Hannay, Davis, Graham & Stubbs LLP, Denver, CO, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General's Office, Department of Law, Denver, CO, Alan J. Gilbert, Daniel S. Miller, Stephen Marshall Brown, Robert J. Eber, Attorney General's Office, Natural Resources Unit, Denver, CO, Patricia S. Bangert, Powers & Phillips, PC, Denver, CO, Timothy M. Tymkovich, Hale, Hackstaff, Tymkovich & ErkenBrack, LLP, Denver, CO, Robert Reiny Marsh, Attorney General's Office, Criminal Enforcement Division, Denver, CO, Robert D. Clark, Attorney General's Office, Business and Licensing Section, Denver, for State of Colorado.

Frederick J. Baumann, James M. Lyons, Scott Mark Browning, Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons, LLP,Denver, CO, Lee D. Foreman, Saskia A. Jordan, Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, P.C., Denver, CO, John Dennis Fognani, Christopher L. Thorne, Suzanna K. Moran, Zevnik, Horton, Guibord, McGovern, Palmer & Fognani, LLP, Denver, CO, Craig V. Richardson, Greenberg, Taurig, LLP, Denver, CO, for Robert M. Friedland.

Stanley L. Garnett, Connie Louise Peterson, Mark M. Mathews, Angela Wynn Victoria Jacobs, Amy Monger, Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber, P.C., Denver, CO, Rebecca L. Summerville, Ronald B. MacDonald, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, PC, Missoula, MT, for Industrial Constructors Corp.

Timothy R. Gablehouse, Donn Lee Calkins, Melanie Joy Granberg, Gablehouse & Epel, LLC, Denver, CO, for Aztec Minerals Corp., Gray Eagle Mining Corporation, South Mountain Minerals Corporation.

Mark A. Wielga, Elizabeth Hope Temkin, Temkin, Wielga & Hardt, L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., an Union Pacific Resources Co., Union Pacific Resources Group.

Peter John Korneffel, Jr., Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber, P.C., Denver, CO, James A. Clark, Cassandra Gay Sasso, Munir Reza Meghjee, Baker & Hostetler, Denver, CO, for Bechtel Corp.

J. Eric Elliff, Tarek Fathi M. Saad, Morrison & Foerster, Denver, CO, Arne David Wagner, Michele Biegel Corash, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Bank of America Nat. Trust and Savings Ass'n.

Richard S. Vermeire, John L. Watson, Craig B. Shaffer, Dianne Michelle Kueck, Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell, Denver, CA, Joanne Herlihy, Dufford & Brown, P.C., Denver, CO, for A.O. Smith Corp.

Paul David Phillips, Steven W. Black, Holland & Hart, LLP, Denver, CO, for Columbia Geosystems, Ltd.

William C. Scott, Stuart R. Butzier, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, Victor F. Boog, Linda Ann Battalora, Victor F. Boog, P.C., Lakewood, CO, for Southway Const. Co., Inc.

Jennifer K. Schreck, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Denver, CO, for Staker Paving and Const. Co., Inc.

James Daniel Levine, Long, Aldridge & Norman, LLP, Atlanta, GA, James T. Markus, John Frederick Young, Block, Marcus and Williams, LLC, Denver, CO, for Geosyntec Consultants, P.C.

Hugh Gottschalk, Terence M. Ridley, Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, PC, Denver, CO, for Sun Oil.

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

NOTTINGHAM, District Judge.

This is a CERCLA action. Third-Party Defendant and Crossclaim Defendant A.O. Smith Corporation ("A.O.Smith"), moves for summary judgment in its favor on all third-party claims asserted against it by Defendant Robert M. Friedland ("Friedland"), and on all crossclaims asserted against it by third-party defendants Aztec Minerals Corporation, South Mountain Minerals Corporation, Grey Eagle Mining Corporation...

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