Legal Opinion
United States v. Iron Mountain Mines, Inc.
District Court, E.D. California
Decided March 31, 1995No. CIV-S-91-768 DFL, CIV-S-91-1167 DFLPublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER
LEVI, District Judge.
This case concerns the allocation of costs for the cleanup of the Iron Mountain Mine (“the mine”). Plaintiffs are the United States and the State of California, who are suing under CERCLA 1 to recover response costs for cleanup activities at the mine. Defendants are Iron Mountain Mines, Inc. and T.W. Arman (“IMMI/Arman”), the current owners of the mine, and Rhone Poulenc Basic Chemicals Co. (“RP”), the corporate successor to Mountain Copper, Co., Ltd., the previous owner of the mine. 2 RP has filed CERCLA and state law counterclaims and…
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