IN RE NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION

No. 2000-CA-0479.

794 So.2d 956 (2001)

In re NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

August 1, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry T. Dart, David P. Bains, Joseph M. Bruno, Harry E. Cantrell, Frank J. D'Amico, Calvin C. Fayard, Wendell H. Gauthier, Jack W. Harang, Darleen M. Jacobs, C. Joseph Murray, David W. Robinson, H. Edward Sherman, Thomas L. Smith, Vernon P. Thomas, T. Allen Usry, Plaintiffs' Legal Committee.

Joseph M. Bruno, David Scalia, Anthony Irpino, Bruno & Bruno, New Orleans, LA, and Wendell H. Gauthier, Bruce C. Dean, Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, and T. Allen Usry, Usry & Weeks, and Henry T. Dart, Metairie, LA, Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel.

Darleen M. Jacobs, New Orleans, LA, and Luther F. Cole, Baton Rouge, LA, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellees.

Harry S. Hardin, III, Raymond J. Salassi, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P., and Sam A. Leblanc, III, Adams and Reese, LLP, and Roy J. Rodney, Jr., Rodney, Bordenave, Boykin & Ehret, New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (CSX Transportation, Inc.).

Daniel Lund, Timothy F. Daniels, David W. O'Quinn, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, LLP, New Orleans, LA, and Joseph L. Shea, Jr., Barlow and Hardtner, L.C., Shreveport, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (AMF-BRD, Inc.).

Eric Shuman, Dwayne C. Jefferson, McGlinchey Stafford, A.P.L.C., and K. Eric Gisleson, Douglas L. Grundmeyer, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (Nova Chemicals, Inc.).

John S. Keller and Richard C. Stanley, Thomas M. Flanagan, Bryan C. Reuter, Stanley & Flanagan, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Amicus Curiae (The City of New Orleans).

Taylor L. Caffery, American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA, Amicus Curiae (The American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc.).

Court composed of Chief Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES, III, Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.


Prior report: 795 So.2d 364.

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge.

The application for rehearing of Nova Chemicals, Inc. ("Polysar") is denied. The duty and liability of Polysar was not determined solely by the ownership of the butadiene, or by any other single factor, but by the several factors discussed in our opinion on original...

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