Institute for Fisheries Resources v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES Case No. 3:23-cv-05748-JD RESOURCES, et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE STAY 9 v. 10 CONTINENTAL TIRE THE AMERICAS, 11 LLC, et al., Defendants. 12 13 The crux of this environmental case is whether the use of N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N’- 14 phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) in car and truck tires made by defendants resulted in road 15 runoff in the form of 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-q) that caused a “taking” of protected salmonid fish 16 species in West Coast populations under Section 9 of the Endangered Species…