Legal Opinion
G.J. Leasing Company, Incorporated, Doing Business as Cahokia Marine Service and S.I. Enterprises, L.P. v. Union Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 1995No. 94-2972PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
G.J. Leasing — we can ignore the other plaintiff — filed this suit in 1991 against Union Electric, which in 1979 had sold a 52-acre tract containing a decommissioned power plant to G.J. Leasing’s predecessor. The suit charges that the sale constituted the disposal (or the arranging of the disposal) of a hazardous substance, namely the asbestos in the plant. If this is right, then the seller, Union Electric, as the owner of the facility at which the hazardous substance was disposed of, or, equally, as the arranger of the disposal, was responsible under sections 107(a)(2) or…
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