United States v. Grace & Co.
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 03-35924 v. W.R. GRACE & CO.; KOOTENAI D.C. No.
CV-01-00072-DWM
DEVELOPMENT, CORPORATION; W.R.
OPINION
GRACE & CO. CONN.,
Defendants-Appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted February 7, 2005—Seattle, Washington
Filed December 1, 2005
Before: Betty B. Fletcher, M. Margaret McKeown, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge McKeown; Concurrence by Judge Bea
15531 UNITED STATES v. W.R. GRACE & CO. 15535
COUNSEL
Christopher Landau and John C. O’Quinn, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth W. Lund, Linnea Brown and Katheryn Jarvis Coggon, Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Denver, Colorado, for the defendants-appellants.
John T. Stahr, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; James Free- man, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Denver, Colorado, for the plaintiff- appellee.