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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:9607 Real Property Tort to Land

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 [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING ECHCO’S 

MOT APPROVING SETT’L/BARRING CLAIMS

2:05-CV-01510-WBS-PAN

Eugene C. Blackard Jr. (Bar No. 142090) 

gblackard@archernorris.com 

Probal G. Young (Bar No. 188177) 

pyoung@archernorris.com 

Alissa R. Pleau-Fuller (Bar No. 258907) 

apleaufuller@archernorris.com 

ARCHER NORRIS 

2033 North Main Street, Suite 800 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596-3759 

Telephone: 925.930.6600 

Facsimile: 925.930.6620 

Attorneys for Third-Party Defendant 

ECHCO SALES CO., INC. (erroneously sued herein 

as ECHCO SALES AND EQUIPMENT CO., INC.) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ADOBE LUMBER, INC., a 

California Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

F. WARREN HELLMAN, and 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as 

Trustees of Trust A created by the 

Estate of Marco Hellman; et al.,F. 

WARREN HELLMAN as Trustee of 

Trust B created by the Estate of 

Marco Hellman; THE ESTATE OF 

MARCO HELLMAN, DECEASED; 

WOODLAND SHOPPING 

CENTER, a limited partnership; 

JOSEPH MONTALVO, an 

individual; HAROLD TAECKER, 

an individual; GERALDINE 

TAECKER, an individual; HOYT 

CORPORATION, a Massachusetts 

Corporation; PPG INDUSTRIES, 

INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation; 

OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL 

CORPORATION, a New York 

Corporation; CITY OF 

WOODLAND; and ECHO SALES 

& EQUIPMENT CO., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:05-CV-01510-WBS-PAN 

ORDER GRANTING ECHCO SALES CO., 

INC.’S MOTION FOR ORDER 

APPROVING SETTLEMENT AND 

BARRING CLAIMS 

Date: March 1, 2010 

Time: 2:00 p.m. 

Judge: William B. Shubb 

Courtroom: 5, 14th Floor 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING ECHCO’S 

MOT APPROVING SETT’L/BARRING CLAIMS

2:05-CV-01510-WBS-PAN

AND RELATED CROSS-CLAIMS 

The motion for approval of the settlement and barring claims against the following settling 

party-defendants: 

(1) Echco Sales & Co., Inc.; and 

(2) Plaintiff Adobe Lumber; Channel Lumber; and Rossi Development, 

which was filed by Third-Party Defendant ECHCO SALES & CO., INC. (“Echco”) was heard by 

this Court. 

After considering the moving papers and any responses thereto and the record as a whole, 

the Court finds that the settlement as embodied in the Settlement Agreement set forth as Exhibit 

A hereto was made in good faith and is fair, reasonable and consistent with the purposes of the 

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 

U.S.C. § 9601, et seq. 

The matter having been briefed, argued and submitted for decision, and good cause 

appearing, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion is granted, and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED 

that: 

1. The Settlement Agreement attached as Exhibit 1 hereto is hereby approved as a 

good faith settlement. 

2. Section 6 of the Uniform Comparative Fault Act, 12 U.L.A. 147 (1996), in 

pertinent part, is hereby adopted as the federal common law in this case for the purposes of 

determining the legal effect of the Settlement Agreement. 

3. The Court further finds and determines that the Settlement Agreement has been 

entered into in good faith within the meaning of California Code of Civil Procedure § 877.6. 

4. Pursuant to UCFA § 6 and the California Code of Civil Procedure § 877.6, any 

and all claims against the settling defendant arising out of the matters asserted in this action or 

addressed in the Settlement Agreement, regardless of when asserted or by whom, are barred. 

Such claims are barred regardless of whether they are brought pursuant to CERCLA 42 U.S.C. § 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING ECHCO’S 

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9601, et seq., or pursuant to other federal or state law. 

Dated: March 4, 2010 

H2081/875848-1 

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