Legal Opinion
In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 10, 2006No. 1:00-1898. MDL 1358(SAS). No. M 21-88PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In this consolidated multi-district litigation (“MDL”), plaintiffs seek relief from contamination, or threatened contamination, of groundwater from various defendants’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”) and/or tertiary butyl alcohol (“TBA”), which is a product formed by the natural degradation of MTBE in water. The parties have already engaged in extensive motion practice, and familiarity with the Court’s previous opinions is assumed. 1 The facts underlying this case are comprehensively set out in those…
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