Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Seaboard Farms, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 28, 2004No. 03-6104PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Circuit Judge.
Sierra Club, Inc. appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants, Seaboard Farms Inc., Seaboard Corporation, and Shawnee Funding Limited Partnership (together, “Seaboard”), who own and operate a pig-farming operation in western Oklahoma. This case turns on the meaning of the word “facility” as used in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act’s section 103(a) (“CERC-LA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9603(a).
CERCLA’s Section 103(a) sets out various reporting requirements for the release of hazardous substances from a facility;…
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