Legal Opinion
Peter Voggenthaler v. Maryland Square LLC
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 26, 2013No. 10-17520, 11-15174, 11-15176, 12-16409, 12-16412PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
Two environmental statutes everyone loves to hate are the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”). In combination, they make owners of contaminated property and contributors to contamination responsible for cleaning up toxic waste, and, if someone else cleans up the waste, liable for the costs of that clean up. This litigation illustrates the point. It involves seepage over several decades of a toxic dry cleaning chemical into the ground under a Las. Vegas shopping…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Orange Cnty. Water Dist. v. MAG Aerospace Indus., Inc., California Court of Appeal, 5th District2017
- Coppola v. SmithDistrict Court, E.D. California · 2013
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