Legal Opinion
Guthrie v. Alabama By-Products Company
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided June 21, 1971No. Civ. A. 71-21PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LYNNE, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, as lower riparian landowners, seek damages and injunctive relief for alleged water pollution.
This action was filed on behalf of some 65 named plaintiffs “and all others similarly situated.” Plaintiffs allege that they are riparian landowners along the Warrior River, a navigable waterway, and some of its tributary creeks which run through the industrial valley of Birmingham. The defendants named in the original complaint are some 19 industrial corporations who, plaintiffs aver, discharge liquid wastes from their industrial plants into creeks…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Gully v. First Nat. Bank in MeridianSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Strawbridge v. CurtissSupreme Court of the United States · 1806
- Shelley v. KraemerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. RigsbySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Connecticut Action Now, Inc. v. Roberts Plating Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
- United States v. Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1973
- United States v. United States Steel CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
- Sierra Club v. AndrusCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- Dreyer v. JaletDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1972
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