GREEN BAY - Neenah-Menasha Sewerage Commission, a client of the firm, was one of more than 20 parties named in a two-year-old lawsuit filed by Appleton Papers, Inc. and NCR Corporation. In the suit, Appleton Papers and NCR sought to alleviate the estimated $1 billion to $1.5 billion cost of cleaning the Fox River of PCBs. The river was said to be contaminated beginning in the 1950s up until 1977 when the federal government banned the use of PCBs as they were found to be toxic.
Davis & Kuelthau successfully extricated Nennah-Menasha Sewerage Commission from the suit on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge William Griesbach dismissed the lawsuit saying that Appleton Papers and NCR are responsible for the majority of contamination and that all other parties named in the suit were "completely faultless or nearly so."
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