Legal Opinion
Western Properties Service Corp. v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 13, 2004No. 01-55676PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
This is a CERCLA contribution case.1 The appellants were found to have arranged, during the early years of World War II, for the disposal of wastes from aviation fuel production.
FACTS
The property at issue, near Corona, in Riverside County, California, was once a ranch owned by the Wardlows. Gravel had been excavated from the property in 1938 for a nearby dam, leaving four gravel pits. For $2,000, the Wardlows sold the right to dump “acid tar” — petroleum waste consisting in substantial part of sulfuric acid — into those pits. Oil refineries, for over a decade by then,…
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