Legal Opinion
Rogers Cartage Company v. Monsanto Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2015No. 12-3624 & 13-3052PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
The villages of Sauget and Cahokia, Illinois, located along the east bank of the Mississippi River just south of East St. Louis, are home to a three-and-a half-mile storm water conveyance channel known as Dead Creek. The name is morbid, but fitting. For more than a century, the area has been dominated by industrial activity, and for much of that time, Dead Creek was the recipient of a broad array of waste materials, including polychlorinated biphe-nyls (“PCBs”). Because of its extensive contamination, the creek became the center of a cleanup site designated by the U.S.…
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