Legal Opinion
City of Philadelphia v. Stepan Chemical Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 4, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-851PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DITTER, District Judge.
In this action, the City of Philadelphia (“the City”) seeks to recover clean-up costs and consequential damages which resulted from the illegal dumping on city property of industrial waste generated by the defendants. The suit is predicated upon numerous federal and state environmental statutes as well as several common law theories of recovery. Defendants have filed a comprehensive motion for judgment on the pleadings under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c) asserting that the statutes upon which the City relies do not support its claim and that, as a matter of law, they cannot…
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