Kleen v. Dominion
| Decision Date | 08 December 2000 |
| Docket Number | INCORPORATED,No. 00-2182,No. 00-2214,No. 00-2180,N,SAFETY-KLEE,No. 00-2170,00-2170,00-2180,00-2182,00-2214 |
| Citation | 274 F.3d 846 |
| Parties | (4th Cir. 2001) (PINEWOOD), Plaintiff-Appellant, and TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INCORPORATED, As agent and advisor for secured creditors; TD SECURITIES (USA), INCORPORATED, As agent and advisor for secured creditors, Intervenors/Plaintiffs, and OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF UNSECURED CREDITORSOF SAFETY KLEEN CORPORATION, Amicus Curiae, v. BRADFORD W. WYCHE, Chairman, South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control, in his official capacity; SOUTH CAROLINA BOARDOF HEALTHAND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; DOUGLAS E. BRYANT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, in his official capacity; SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENTOF HEALTHAND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, Defendants-Appellees, SIERRA CLUB; PHIL P. LEVENTIS; CITIZENS ASKINGFOR A SAFE ENVIRONMENT, INCORPORATED (CASE); SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENTOF NATURAL RESOURCES; SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY, Intervenors/Defendants-Appellees, and STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Defendant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Amicus Curiae. (PINEWOOD), Plaintiff-Appellee, TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INCORPORATED, As agent and advisor for secured creditors; TD SECURITIES (USA), INCORPORATED, As agent and advisor for secured creditors, Intervenors/Plaintiffs-Appellees, and OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF UNSECURED CREDITORSOF SAFETY KLEEN CORPORATION, Amicus Curiae, v. BRADFORD W. WYCHE, Chairman, South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control, in his official capacity; SOUTH CAROLINA BOARDOF HEALTHAND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; DOUGLAS E. BRYANT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, in his official capacity; SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENTOF HEALTHAND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, Defendants-Appellants, and STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Defendant, and SIERRA CLUB; PHIL P. LEVENTIS; CITIZENS ASKINGFOR A SAFE ENVIRONMENT, INCORPORATED (CASE); SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENTOF NATURAL RESOURCES; SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY, Intervenors/Defendants, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Amicus Curiae. (PINEWOOD), Plai |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fourth Circuit |
Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Matthew J. Perry, Jr., Senior District Judge. (CA-00-2243-3-10) [Copyrighted Material Omitted]
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[Copyrighted Material Omitted] COUNSEL ARGUED: Stuart Henry Newberger, CROWELL & MORING, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Richard Chase Tufaro, MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & MCCLOY, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Benjamin A. Hagood, Jr., CRAVER, HAGOOD & KERR, Charleston, South Carolina; James Stuart Chandler, Jr., Georgetown, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Clifton S. Elgarten, Ellen B. Steen, Aryeh S. Portnoy, Adam Gajadharsingh, CROWELL & MORING, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Henry H. Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, SAFETY-KLEEN CORPORATION, Columbia, South Carolina; David Kurtz, SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM, L.L.P., Chicago, Illinois; Harvey R. Miller, David R. Berz, John J. Rapisardi, WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES, L.L.P., New York, New York; Thomas S. Tisdale, Stephen L. Brown, YOUNG, CLEMENT, RIVERS & TISDALE, L.L.P., Charleston, South Carolina; Luc A. Despins, MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & MCCLOY, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert A. Kerr, Jr., Wendy L. Wilkie, CRAVER, HAGOOD & KERR, Charleston, South Carolina; Carlisle Roberts, Jr., Jacquelyn S. Dickman, E. Katherine Wells, Office of General Counsel, SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH A ND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, John A. Bryson, Alan S. Tenenbaum, Randall M. Stone, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Nina Rivera, Christine McCullouch, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States.
Before WIDENER, LUTTIG, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and dismissed in part by published opinion. Judge Michael wrote the opinion, in which Judge Widener joined and in which Judge Luttig joined except for part III.A. Judge Widener wrote a concurring opinion, and Judge Luttig wrote a concurring opinion.
Safety-Kleen, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor, filed this adversary proceeding against the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) in an effort to prevent the agency from closing Safety-Kleen's Pinewood facility, a commercial hazardous waste landfill. Safety-Kleen appeals the district court's order denying the company a preliminary injunction to enjoin DHEC from closing the Pinewood facility. DHEC, in turn, cross-appeals the district court's determinations (1) that the...
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