Legal Opinion
In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 18, 2006No. 1:00-1898. Nos. MDL 1358(SAS), M 21-88PublishedCited by 19 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”), a product that is 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 opin ions is assumed. 1 The facts underlying this case are comprehensively set out in those…
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