RACER TRUST v. NATIONAL GRID USA

Docket No. 20-1931-cv August Term, 2020.

10 F.4th 87 (2021)

REVITALIZING AUTO COMMUNITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE TRUST, and Racer Properties LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NATIONAL GRID USA, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Carrier Corporation, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation, General Electric Company, fka General Electric Corporation, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company, New Process Gear, Inc., Magna Powertrain USA, Inc., Thompson Corners, LLC, Metalico Syracuse Realty, Inc., Metalico New York, Inc., Gardner Denver, Inc., ONX1 LLC, Onondaga Pottery Company, Syracuse China LLC, Libbey Glass LLC, Amparit Industries, LLC, 6181 Thompson Road, LLC, Carrier Circle Business Complex LLC, Telesector Resources Group, Inc., Western Electric Company, Incorporated, Syracuse LePage LLC, Lennox Industries Inc., Syracuse Deere Road Associates, LLC, Jagar Enterprises, Inc., Calocerinos and Spina, C & S Engineers, Inc., John Does, B&B Family Limited Partnership, Hauler's Facility LLC, 6223 Thompson Road Suite 1000 Syracuse, NY 13206, Honeywell International Inc., 80 State Street Albany, NY 122072543, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 6801 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD 20817, New Process Gear, Inc., 6600 New Venture Gear Drive East Syracuse, NY 13507, Nokia of American Corporation, 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974, North Midler Properties LLC, 6041 Sewickley Drive Jamesville, NY 13078, Northeast Management Services, Inc., c/o Florine Basile, Jr., President P.O. Box 1238 Cicero, NY 13039, Northern Industrial Holdings, LLC, 1675 South State Street Suite B Dover, De 19901, Thompson Lawn, LCC, 7050 Cedarbay Road Fayetteville, NY 13066, Thompson NW, LLC, 7050 Cedarbay Road Fayetteville, NY 13066, Carlyle Air Conditioning Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Chrysler Group LLC, Cooper Crouse-Hinds, LLC, Prestolite Electric Incorporated, Deere & Company, Center Circles LLC, Solvents and Petroleum Service, Inc., Aleris Partners LLC, Fulton Iron & Steel Co. Inc., Burko Corporation, Empire Pipeline Corporation, Old Carco Liquidation Trust, By Its Trustee RJM I, LLC 251 Little Falls Drive Wilmington, DE 19808, Old Carco LLC, 555 Chrysler Drive Auburn Hills, MI 48236, United States Hoffman Machinery Corporation, 105 Fourth Avenue New York, NY 10003, Old Electric, Inc., aka Old Prestolite, fka Prestolite Electric Incorporated, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Littleton , Donahue, Goldberg & Littleton, Washington, DC ( Alan J. Knauf , Linda R. Shaw , Amy K. Kendall , Knauf Shaw LLP, Rochester, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Robert A. Wiygul ( Steven T. Miano , Peter V. Keays , on the brief), Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA, Kristin Carter Rowe ( Dean S. Sommer , on the brief), Young/Sommer LLC, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees 6181 Thompson Road, LLC; Amparit Industries, LLC; B&B Family Limited Partnership; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; C & S Engineers, Inc.; Calocerinos and Spina; Carlyle Air Conditioning Company, Inc.; Carrier Circle Business Complex LLC; Carrier Corporation; Gardner Denver, Inc.; General Electric Company; Haulers Facility LLC; Honeywell International Inc.; Jagar Enterprises, Inc.; Libbey Glass LLC; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Magna Powertrain USA, Inc.; Metalico New York, Inc.; Metalico Syracuse Realty, Inc.; National Grid USA; New Process Gear, Inc.; Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation; Nokia of America Corporation; North Midler Properties; Northeast Management Services, Inc.; Northern Industrial Holdings, LLC; Onondaga Pottery Company; ONX1 LLC; Raytheon Technologies Corporation (f/k/a United Technologies Corporation); Syracuse China LLC; Syracuse Deere Road Associates, LLC; Syracuse LePage LLC; Telesector Resources Group, Inc.; Thompson Corners, LLC; Thompson Lawn, LLC; Thompson NW, LLC; Western Electric Company, Incorporated.

Douglas H. Zamelis , Law Offices of Douglas H. Zamelis, Cooperstown, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Northeast Management Services, Inc.

Charles T. Wehland , Jones Day, Chicago, IL, James M. Gross , Jones Day, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Lennox Industries, Inc.

Before: Sack, Lynch, and Menashi, Circuit Judges.


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