MARTIN v. GRANITE CITY STEEL CORP.

Civ. No. 84-3125.

596 F.Supp. 293 (1984)

Lionel MARTIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GRANITE CITY STEEL CORPORATION, an Illinois corporation, and Granite City Steel Division of National Steel Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Illinois.

October 22, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Shaikewitz, Wiseman, Shaikewitz, McGiven & Wahl, Alton, Ill., for plaintiffs.

R. Eric Robertson, Lueders, Robertson & Konzen, Granite City, Ill., J.F. McKenna, III, and C.R. Babst, III, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

FOREMAN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs filed this action in the Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Madison County, Illinois, alleging that the defendants, by recycling coal by-products into their coke ovens, intentionally exposed the plaintiffs to toxins and carcinogens. The plaintiffs seek to represent a class of all persons who have worked for the Granite City plant since June of 1982 and all nonemployees who have lived within a five...

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