Legal Opinion
In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 16, 2005No. 1:00-1898, MDL 1358(SAS), M21-88PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case is one of dozens in a multidistrict litigation (“MDL”), in which numerous plaintiffs .are seeking relief from contamination or threatened contamination of groundwater from various defendants’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”). 1 This opinion relates only to Hope Koch, et al. v. John R Hicks, et al., 05 Civ. 5745.
On June 30, 2004, Hope and Frank Koch (“Koch plaintiffs”) filed a class action complaint in Circuit Court for Harford County,
Maryland claiming that John R. Hicks, operator of the…
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