IN RE METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER PRODUCTS LITI.

No. 15-3934-cv August Term, 2016.

859 F.3d 178 (2017)

IN RE METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ("MTBE") PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. Orange County Water District, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc., Equilon Enterprises LLC, Shell Oil Company, d/b/a Shell Oil Products US, Atlantic Richfield Company, f/k/a Arco Petroleum Company, d/b/a Arco Products Company, a/k/a Arco, BP Products North America, Inc., BP West Coast LLC, (Doe 3), Defendants-Appellees; Unocal Corporation, ConocoPhillips Company, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., d/b/a Chevron Products Company, d/b/a Chevron Chemical Company, Union Oil Company of California, Inc., Tosco Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, f/k/a Exxon Corporation, d/b/a ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Company, ExxonMobil Chemical, Corporation, Exxon, CHEMICAL U.S.A., Mobile Corporation, Ultramar, Inc., Valero Refining and Marketing Company, Valero Refining Company-California, Valero Refining, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, (Doe 4), Tesoro Refining And Marketing Company, Inc., Petro-Diamond, Inc., (Doe 6), Southern Counties Oil Co., (Doe 7), Arco Chemical Company, (Doe 201), Lyondell Chemical Company, f/k/a Arco Chemical Company G & M Oil Company, Inc., 7-Eleven, Inc., USA Gasoline Corporation, Does, 9-200, and Does 202-1000, Inclusive, Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobile Oil Corporation, TMR Company, Chevrontexaco Corporation, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MICHAEL D. AXLINE , Miller & Axline, A Professional Corporation, Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

MATTHEW T. HEARTNEY , Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, CA, STEPHANIE B. WEIRICK , Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, D.C., PETER C. CONDRON , Sedgwick LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

MATTHEW THURLOW , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C., ETHAN DAVIS , King & Spalding LLP, San Francisco, CA, ASHLEY CHARLES PARRISH , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D.C., JEFFREY PARKER , WHITNEY ROY , Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA, JENNIFER L. ASPINALL , KELLY HARDY MURRIE , Dowd Bennett LLP, St. Louis, MO, COLLEEN DOYLE , Hunton & Williams LLP, Los Angeles, CA, BENJAMIN G. SHATZ , Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants and Amici Curiae.

Before: Parker, Raggi and Hall, Circuit Judges.


This appeal arises from contamination of groundwater in Orange County, California, from various oil companies' use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether ("MTBE"). This case, initially brought in 2003 in California state court, was removed to the Central District of California and transferred in...

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