KERR-McGEE CHEMICAL CORP. v. HARTIGAN

No. 86-1320.

816 F.2d 1177 (1987)

KERR-McGEE CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Neil F. HARTIGAN, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Nickles, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Russell R. Eggert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

This case is the latest installment in a series of federal and state court lawsuits that concern the appellant's West Chicago Rare Earths Facility. It again raises, in a slightly modified form, the highly contentious issue of whose back yard will be the final resting place of wastes from the facility. In the current suit, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation ("Kerr-McGee") appeals the district court's refusal...

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