IN RE METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER LIABILITY

Master File No. 1:00-1898. MDL No. 1358 (SAS). No. M21-88.

676 F.Supp.2d 139 (2009)

In re METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ("MTBE") PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. This document relates to: Orange County Water District, v. Unocal, et al., 04 Civ. 4968.

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

November 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Axline, Esq., Tracey O'Reilly, Esq., Miller, Axline & Sawyer, Sacramento, CA, for Orange County Water District.

Matthew T. Heartney, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Atlantic Richfield Company and BP Products North America, Inc.

Robin Greenwald, Esq., Robert Gordon, Esq., Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Peter John Sacripanti, Esq., James A. Pardo, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

In this consolidated multi-district litigation ("MDL"), plaintiffs seek relief from contamination, or threatened contamination, of groundwater from various defendants' use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether ("MTBE") and/or tertiary butyl alcohol ("TBA"), which is a product formed by the natural degradation of MTBE in water. The parties have already engaged...

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