U.S. v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP.

Civ. A. No. 85-502 MMS.

674 F.Supp. 138 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION; Sea-Port Services, Ltd., formerly Sealand, Ltd.; Oil Industries, Ltd.; Wayne Hawkins; Chem Clear, Inc.; Coopers Creek Chemical Corporation; Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.; Philadelphia Gas Works; Public Service Electric and Gas Company; and National Industrial Services, Inc., f/k/a Maine Coastal Service, Defendants. PENN FUEL GAS, INC.; Consolidated Rail Corporation; Chem Clear, Inc.; Coopers Creek Chemical Corporation; Philadelphia Gas Works; and Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. WASHINGTON POST COMPANY; Affiliated Publications, Inc., d/b/a Boston Globe; Times Journal Company, f/k/a Army Times Publishing Company; United States Printing Ink Corporation; East Coast Pollution Control, Inc.; Casie Ecology Oil Salvage, Inc.; National Industrial Services, Inc., f/k/a Maine Coastal Service; Farboil Company; Peabody Clean Industries, Inc. of Massachusetts, f/k/a Coastal Services, Inc.; Eklof Marine Corp.; Timber Trucking Co., Inc.; Continental Vanguard, Inc.; Burke Parsons Bowlby Corp.; Peabody-Myers Corporation; USX Corporation f/k/a United States Steel Corp.; Koopers Company, Inc.; the Globe Newspaper Company; A.M. Lavin Machine Works, Inc.; and Robert J. Ziegler, d/b/a American Reclamation Refining Company, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

November 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Andrews, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Robert R. Keuhn, Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., for U.S.

Somers S. Price, Jr. of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Abbi L. Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for Consolidated Rail Corp.

John Elzufon, of Elzufon & Bailey, Wilmington, Del., for Sea-Port Services, Ltd.

Wayne Hawkins, defendant pro se, Wilmington, Del.

Stephen E. Herrmann of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Thomas W. Scott of Killian & Gephart, Harrisburg, Pa., for Chem Clear, Inc.

Henry E. Gallagher and Collins J. Seitz, Jr. of Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, Del., for Coopers Creek Chemical Corp.

C. Scott Reese of Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Robert A. Swift of Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., for Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.

Philip D. Saxon of Duane, Morris & Hecksher, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Tyler E. Wren of Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia Gas Works.

William D. Johnston of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Roger M. Nelson, Newark, N.J., for Public Service Elec. and Gas Co.

Susan C. Del Pesco of Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee, Wilmington, Del., for National Industrial Services, Inc.

Barbara D. Crowell of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: John Quarles, and Janine M. Sweeney of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C., for Washington Post Co., Affiliated Publications, Inc., and The Globe Newspaper Co.

Donald E. Reid of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for Peabody Clean Industries, Inc., Times Journal Co., f/k/a Army Times Publishing Co., and Peabody-Myers Corp., of counsel for Peabody Clean Industries, Inc. and Times Journal Co.

Donald Patterson of Beverage & Diamond, Washington, D.C. of counsel, for Army Times.

Theodore L. Garret, and Keith A. Teel of Coving & Burling, Washington, D.C. of counsel, for Army Times.

Douglas B. Catts of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, Del., for U.S. Printing Ink Corp.

Raymond M. Radulski, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Michael H. Malin of White & Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., for East Coast Pollution Control, Inc.

John C. Lager of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Franklin J. Riesenburger of Greenblatt & Riesenburger, P.A., Vineland, N.J., for Casie Ecology Oil Salvage, Inc.

John W. Noble of Parkowski, Noble & Guerke, Dover, Del., of counsel: Charles D. Hellman of Lowenstein, Sandler, Brochin, Kohl, Fisher, Boylan & Meanor, Roseland, N.J., for Farboil Co.

Beth H. Christman of Tybout, Redfearn, Casarino & Pell, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Kieron Quinn, and Thomas J. Minton of Quinn, Ward & Kershaw, Baltimore, Md., for Eklof Marine Corp.

William L. Garrett, Jr. of O'Donnell & Hughes, P.A., Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Robert G. McLusky of Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, for Timber Trucking Co., Inc. and Burke Parsons Bowlby Corp.

Robert K. Beste, Jr. of Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Frank Thatcher of Moss, Thatcher, Moss, McNeill & Ferreri, Runnemede, N.J., for Continental Vanguard, Inc.

Roger A. Akin of Sawyer & Akin, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Mark McNally, Pittsburgh, Pa., for USX Corp.

Richard Herrmann of Bayard, Handelman & Murdoch, Wilmington, Del., for Koopers Co., Inc.

Joseph W. Weik of Czajkowski, Weik & Knepper, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Lewis Kates of Kates & Mozzocone, Philadelphia, Pa., for A.M. Lavin Machine Works, Inc.

Robert J. Katzenstein of Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, Del., of counsel: Robert J. Ziegler, of Pressman & Pressman, Philadelphia, Pa., for Robert J. Ziegler.


OPINION ON THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY'S MOTION TO DISMISS

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

In August 1985, plaintiff United States of America brought an action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-9657 (1982), seeking reimbursement of response costs for the clean-up of hazardous wastes at the Sealand disposal site in Delaware. On August 7, 1986 Conrail and other defendants...

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