Legal Opinion
City of Bloomington, Indiana v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 1990No. 88-2660PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
In April 1981 the City of Bloomington, Indiana, and its Utilities Service Board (collectively “City”) sued Westinghouse Electric Corporation for $149,000,000 damages and equitable relief alleging Westinghouse discharged waste containing polychlorinat-ed biphenyls (PCBs) into Bloomington’s sewers and into its Winston-Thomas Sewage Treatment Plant. In October 1981 the City filed an amended complaint adding Monsanto Company as a defendant and also covering the presence of PCB waste at the City’s Lemon Lane Landfill. The amended complaint sought $80,000,000 in damages and…
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