Legal Opinion
In Re Better-Brite Plating, Inc.
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided September 22, 1989No. 13-34802PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
DALE E. IHLENFELDT, Bankruptcy Judge.
This case concerns the liability of the bankruptcy estate and of a secured creditor, under state and federal environmental laws, for the cost of cleaning up hazardous wastes, and the ability of the trustee to abandon real estate containing hazardous wastes. Detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law have been filed.
The debtor filed a petition under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code on September 5, 1985. It had been engaged in the electroplating business since 1963, was operating a zinc plating shop (zinc shop) and a chrome plating shop…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Ohio v. KovacsSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- 16 Collier bankr.cas.2d 1509, Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,795 in Re Cascade Hydraulics and Utility Service, Inc. Central Bank of Montana, a Montana Banking Corporation v. Cascade Hydraulics and Utility Service, Inc., Debtor-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
- In Re T.P. Long Chemical, Inc.United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Ohio · 1985
- In Re StevensDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1987
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- State v. Better Brite Plating Inc.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1992
- Leavell v. KarnesDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 1990
- In Re Better Brite Plating, Inc.United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1990
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