Legal Opinion
Union Oil Company of California v. Dan Leavell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 2000No. 99-3084PublishedCited by 254 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Members of the Leavell family bought some equipment for their recycling business in 1992. (A closely held corporation was the purchaser. For simplicity we use “the Leavells” to refer to the persons and business entities involved.) Four years later the Leavells demanded that Unocal, the seller, remove the machinery and com pensate them for environmental harm that, they insisted, it had caused. According to the Leavells, Unocal’s equipment led to the concentration of radium 226, an element naturally present in soil, whose decay produces radon gas, which plagues the…
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