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U.S. v. ACETO AGR. CHEMICALS CORP.

Civ. No. 87-21-W.

699 F.Supp. 1384 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and State of Iowa ex rel., Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. ACETO AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS CORP., Ciba-Geigy Corporation, The Dow Chemical Corporation, Farnam Companies, Inc., Mobay Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Velsicol Chemical Corporation, and Platte Chemical Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, W.D.

February 26, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah P. Robinson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Eliza Ovrom, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for intervenor.

Thomas C. McGowan, Omaha, Neb. and Christopher J. Tinley, Council Bluffs, Iowa, for defendant Platte Chemical Corp.

Theodore Garrett, Keith A. Teel, Washington, D.C. and Edward Remsburg, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants.

ORDER

DONALD E. O'BRIEN, Chief Judge.

This matter comes to the Court on motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim filed on behalf of each defendant. These motions challenge the authority of the United States and the State of Iowa to recover the costs of cleaning up a contaminated site of a defunct pesticide formulator through civil actions against the manufacturers who sent active pesticide ingredients to the site for formulation and packaging. The...

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