Legal Opinion

In re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided July 30, 2014No. Master File No. 1:00-1898; MDL No. 1358 (SAS); No. M21-88PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

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 aleo-*273hoi, a product formed by the breakdown of MTBE in water. In this case, the City of New York, the New York City Water Board, and the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority (collectively, “the City”) alleged that Defendants’ use and handling of MTBE has contaminated, or threatened to…

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In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability LitigationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
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Burns v. Jaquays Mining Corp.Court of Appeals of Arizona · 1988

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State of New Hampshire v. Exxon Mobil Corporation & a.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 2015