United States v. Consolidated Rail Corp.

OPINION ON THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY’S MOTION TO DISMISS

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

In August 1985, plaintiff United States of America brought an action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (“CERC-LA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-9657 (1982), seeking reimbursement of response costs for the clean-up of hazardous wastes at the Sealand disposal site in Delaware. On August 7, 1986 Conrail and other defendants filed an amended third-party complaint adding third-party defendant The Globe Newspaper Company (“Globe”) and others. The third-party plaintiffs sought…