Legal Opinion
Pennsylvania v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 4, 2016No. Master File No. 1:00-1898 MDL 1358 (SAS); M21-88PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
I. INTRODUCTION
This is a consolidated multi-district litigation (“MDL”) relating to contamination—actual or threatened—of groundwater from various defendants’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”) and/or tertiary butyl alcohol, a product formed by the breakdown of MTBE in water. In this case, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (“the Commonwealth”) alleges that defendants’ use and handling of MTBE has contaminated, or threatens to contaminate groundwater within its jurisdiction. Familiarity with the…
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- United States v. Donald E. JacobsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1997
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