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: Bodily Injury BlogSupreme Court to Weigh Superfund Costs
By Edward Bills
Three companies are asking the Supreme Court to let them off the hook for $40 million in cleanup costs for federal Superfund sites. At issue in the consolidated cases before the justices is the concept of arranger liability, or how costs of cleanup projects are apportioned. The cases before the court are Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway Co. v. U.S. and California and Shell Oil v. U.S. and California. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has previously ruled against the companies on the issue of arranger liability.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).
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