Legal Opinion
Bernstein v. Bankert
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 19, 2012No. Nos. 11-1501, 11-1523PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeGUILIO, District Judge.
This appeal is the latest chapter in the story of the Environmental Chemical and Conservation Company (“Enviro-Chem”), a defunct Indiana corporation with an expensive environmental legacy. EnviroChem conducted waste-handling and disposal operations at three sites north of Zionsville, Indiana, until it closed its doors in the early 1980s, and it left considerable amounts of pollutants behind. The plaintiffs in this action are the trustees of a fund created to finance and oversee the cleanup project at one of those three sites. The defendants are the former owners of…
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