SUFFOLK COUNTY v. DOW CHEM.

2012-07097

121 A.D.3d 50 (2014)

991 N.Y.S.2d 613

2014 NY Slip Op 05420

SUFFOLK COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, Respondent-Appellant, v. Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided July 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York City ( Siobhan Handley , Morton Dubin and Richard A. Jacobsen of counsel), and King & Spalding LLP, New York City, for Dow Chemical Company, appellant-respondent.

Leader & Berkon LLP, New York City ( Joshua K. Leader of counsel), for E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, appellant-respondent.

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, New York City ( James H. Neale of counsel), for Legacy Vulcan Corporation, formerly known as Vulcan Materials Company, appellant-respondent.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York City ( Shaina Stahl of counsel), for Bayer CropScience, Inc., individually and as successor-in-interest to Stauffer Chemical Company, appellant-respondent.

Harwood Lloyd, LLC, New York City ( Gregg A. Ilardi and Levi W. Barrett of counsel), for Bowe-Permac, Inc. and another, appellants-respondents.

Hanig & Schutzman, LLP, Poughkeepsie ( Adrienne Odierna , Richard S. Baron , admitted pro hac vice, and Brian H. Phinney , admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for Hoyt Corporation, appellant-respondent.

Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP, White Plains ( William P. Harrington and Taylor M. Hicks of counsel), for R.R. Street & Co., Inc., appellant-respondent.

Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP, New York City ( Seth I. Weinstein of counsel), for Forenta, LP, appellant-respondent.

Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., New York City ( Allan I. Young of counsel), for Renzacci of America, Inc., appellant-respondent.

McGivney & Kluger, P.C., New York City ( Richard E. Leff of counsel), for Multimatic Dry Cleaning Machine Corporation, appellant-respondent.

Jones Hirsch Connors & Bull P.C., New York City ( Neil E. Higgins and Tonya M. Lindsey of counsel), for Firbimatic, also known as Eco Dry of America, Inc., appellant-respondent.

Cullen and Dykman, LLP, New York City, for Direct Machinery Sales Corp., appellant-respondent.

Connell Foley LLP, New York City ( Michael Bojbasa of counsel), for Detrex Corporation, appellant-respondent.

Armienti, DeBellis, Guglielmo & Rhoden, LLP, New York City ( Karen S. Drotzer of counsel), for Hoffman/New Yorker, Inc., appellant-respondent (one brief filed).

Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York City ( William A. Walsh and Carla Burke of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

DILLON, J.P., DICKERSON and COHEN, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HINDS-RADIX, J.

The Suffolk County Water Authority (hereinafter the SCWA) operates public water drinking systems and supplies drinking water to thousands of residents and businesses in Suffolk County. On July 12, 2010, the SCWA commenced this action against a number of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of perchloroethylene (hereinafter PCE), a chemical commonly used in dry cleaning, and manufacturers, distributors, and retailers...

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