IN RE METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ("MTBE") PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

No. MDL 1358(SAS). No. 04Civ.5424 (SAS).

341 F.Supp.2d 351 (2004)

In re: METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ("MTBE") PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION This document relates to: County of Suffolk and Suffolk County Water Authority, Plaintiffs, v. Amerada Hess Corp., Atlantic Richfield Co., BP Corporation North America Inc. (f/k/a BP Amoco Corp.), BP Products North America Inc. (f/k/a Amoco Oil Co.), Chevron Texaco Corp. (f/k/a Chevron USA Inc. and f/k/a Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc. and f/k/a Texaco, Inc.), Citgo Petroleum Corp., Conocophillips Co., El Paso CGP Co., Exxon Mobil Corp. (f/k/a Exxon Corp.), Equilon Enterprises, LLC (n/k/a Shell Oil Products US), Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., Lyondell Chemical Corp., Motiva Enterprises, LLC, Shell Oil Co., Shell Oil Products US, Sunoco Inc. (R & M), Valero Marketing and Supply Co, Defendants. Lyondell Chemical Corp., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, John Doe Corp. # 1-50, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 13, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Gordon, C. Sanders McNew, Stanley N. Alpert, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York City, for Plaintiffs County of Suffolk, et al. and Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs.

Steven R. Gustavson, Paul J. Reilly, Steven L. Leifer, Baker Botts LLP, New York City, for Third-Party Defendant Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC.

Peter John Sacripanti, James A. Pardo, Stephen J. Riccardulli, McDermott, Will & Emery, New York City, Liaison Counsel for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

This case is one of dozens of cases in a multi-district litigation ("MDL"), in which numerous plaintiffs are seeking relief from contamination or threatened contamination of groundwater from various defendants' use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether ("MTBE").1 This opinion relates only to County of Suffolk...

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