MORTON INTERN., INC. v. A.E. STALEY MFG. CO.

No. 01-4259.

343 F.3d 669 (2003)

MORTON INTERNATIONAL, INC.; Velsicol Chemical Corporation; NWI Land Management Co.; Fruit of the Loom, Incorporated, v. A.E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY; Airco Industrial Gases, a/k/a Air Reduction Company, Inc., f/k/a Airco, Inc.; Allied Chemical Corporation; Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); American Cyanamid Company; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Arsynco, Inc.; Bailey Controls Co., f/k/a Bailey Meter Company; Becton-Dickinson & Co., Inc.; Belfort Instrument Co.; Belmont Metals, Inc., f/k/a Belmont Smelting & Refining Works, Inc.; Canadian Gypsum Company, Ltd.; Canrad, Inc., (c/o Canrad Precision Industries, Inc.); CIBA-GEIGY Corporation; Columbia University; Conopco, Inc., (Cheeseborough Ponds U.S.A. Co. Division); COSAN Chemical Corp.; Crouse Hinds Sepco Corporation, f/k/a Connecticut International; Crown Zellerbach Corp., a/k/a James River Corporation of Nevada; Curtiss-Wright; D.F. Goldsmith Chemical & Metal Corporation; Day & Baldwin, f/k/a C-P Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Company, a/k/a Occidental Electrochemicals Corporation; Dow-Corning Corporation; Dura Electric Lamp Co., Inc.; Duracell, Inc., (as successor to Mallory Battery Co., Inc.); E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co.; Eastern Smelting & Refining Corp.; Eaglehard Minerals and Chemicals Corporation; Environmental Control Systems; Exxon Corporation; Federal Aviation Administration; Garfield Baring Corporation, f/k/a Garfield Smelting & Refining Co.; General Electric Company; General Color Co., Inc.; General Signal Corporation; Gilmartin Instrument Co.; Hartford Electric Supply Company, Inc.; Henkel Corporation; Hoffman-Larouche, Inc.; Hudsar, Incorporated; Inmar Associates, Inc.; Inmar Realty, Inc.; International Nickel, Inc.; J.M. Ney Company; K.E.M. Chemical Company; Koppers, a/k/a Beazer East, Inc.; Magnesium Elektron, Inc.; Marvin H. Mahan; Mallinckrodt Chemical, Inc.; Marisol, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Mercury Enterprise, Inc., f/k/a Mercury Instrument Service; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company; Mobil Oil Corporation; MT. Union College; M.W. Kellogg Co.; National Lead Company, (Goldsmith Brothers Division); Nepera, Inc.; New England Laminates Co., Inc.; New Jersey Institute of Technology, f/k/a Newark College of Engineering; New York City Transit Authority; Northeast Chemical Co., (Northeast Chemical & Industrial Supply Co., Inc.); Occidental Chemical Corporation, (as successor to Diamond Shamrock Chemical Co., formerly Diamond Shamrock Corporation); Olin Corporation, f/k/a Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; Pease & Curren, Inc.; Pfizer, Inc.; PSG Industries, Inc., f/k/a Philadelphia Scientific Glass, Inc.; Phillips & Jacobs, Inc.; Public Service Electric & Gas, (PSE & G); Pure Lab of America; Randolph Products Company; RAY-O-VAC Division of ESB, Inc., (ESB, Inc.); Redland Minerals Limited; Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., f/k/a Alcolac Chemical Company/Guard Chemical Company; Royce Associates, f/k/a Royce Chemical; Rutgers, the State University; Scientific Chemical Processing, Inc.; Scientific Chemical Treatment Co., Inc.; Scientific, Inc.; Seaforth Mineral & Ore Co.; Sparrow Realty, Inc.; State University of New York at Buffalo, (S.U.N.Y.A.B.); Sylvania/Gte; Tenneco, Inc.; Transtech Industries, Inc.; Uehling Instrument Co., Inc.; Union Carbide Corporation; Universal Oil Products Co.; University of Illinois; University of Minnesota; VAR-LAC-OID Chemical Company, Inc.; W.A. Baum Co., Inc.; Wagner Electric Company; Western Michigan University; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; John Doe 1-100; Gerold C. Thompson, Esq.; George Van Cleve, Esq.; the Connecticut Light and Power Company, f/k/a Hartford Electric Light Company; Gte Operations Support Incorporated; Alliedsignal, Inc.; Beazer East, Inc.; Jersey City Management, Inc.; Michael Rodburg, Site Defendants Liasion Counsel; Ashland Chemical Co., a Division of Ashland Oil, Inc.; BASF Corporation, and as successor to Wyandotte Chemical Corp., a/k/a INMONT Corporation; FMC Corporation Morton International, Inc., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed September 16, 2003.

As Amended October 21, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel P. Moulthrop, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Peretti, Morristown, NJ, Joseph S. Justice, Thomas T. Terp, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, OH, John G. Harkins, Jr. [Argued], Steven A. Reed, Harkins Cunningham, Philadelphia, PA, Laurence S. Kirsch, Jonathan R. Stone, Frederick R. Anderson, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, DC, Gerald P. Norton, Norton, Harkins Cunningham, Washington, DC, for Appellant.

David J. D'Aloia [Argued], Robert B. Nussbaum, Michelle V. Fleishman, Saiber, Schlesinger, Satz & Goldstein, Newark, NJ, for Appellee, Tenneco, Inc.

Before: FUENTES, SMITH, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges the grant of summary judgment to one defendant, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. ("Tenneco"), in an action seeking contribution toward environmental cleanup costs. These costs have been or will be incurred by plaintiff-appellant Morton International, Inc. ("Morton") in regard to the Ventron/Velsicol Superfund Site in Wood Ridge, New Jersey (the "Site...

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