Legal Opinion
Dura Automotive Systems of Indiana, Inc., Formerly Known as Excel Corporation v. Cts Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 2002No. 01-1081PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1981 the Main Street Well Field, part of the water supply of the city of Elkhart, Indiana, was discovered to be contaminated by TCE and other volatile organic compounds that are used as industrial or household solvents. Twelve years later the EPA, having cleaned up the contamination, sued several entities under the Superfund statute (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.), including Dura Automotive Systems (actually its predecessor, Excel, but that’s a detail we can ignore), to recover the costs of the…
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