Legal Opinion
Orange County Water District v. Unocal Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 28, 2013No. Master File No. 1:00-1898; MDL No. 1358 (SAS); No. M21-88PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 ease, plaintiff Orange County Water District (the “District”), which is charged with maintaining groundwater quality, alleges that defendants’ use and handling of MTBE has contaminated, or threatens to contaminate, groundwater…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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