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IN RE METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER (MTBE) PRODS.

Master File No. 1:00-1898. MDL No. 1358 (SAS). No. M21-88.

959 F.Supp.2d 476 (2013)

In re METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ("MTBE") PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 16, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Axline, Esq., Miller, Axline, & Sawyer, Sacramento, CA, for Commonwealth.

Robin Greenwald, Esq., Robert Gordon, Esq., Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Elliot E. Polebaum, Esq., Eugene N. Hansen (pro hac vice forthcoming), Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobsen LLP, Washington, DC, for Total S.A.

Mark S. Katz, Esq., Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, New York, NY, for Trammo Petroleum, Inc. and Trammo Caribbean, Inc.

Elaine M. Maldonado-Matias, Esq., Albeniz Couret-Fuentes, Sepulvado & Maldonado, PSC, San Juan, P.R., for Total Outre-Mer, S.A.

Adrian Sanchez-Pagan, Esq., Sife & Munoz-Noya, PSC, San Juan, PR, for Peerless Oil and Chemical, Inc.

Peter John Sacripanti, Esq., James A. Pardo, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a consolidated multi-district litigation ("MDL") relating to contamination — actual or threatened — of groundwater from various defendants' use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether ("MTBE") and/or tertiary butyl alcohol, a product formed by the breakdown of MTBE in water. In this case, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("the Commonwealth...

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