Legal Opinion
Caldo Oil Co. v. State Water Resources Control Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 30, 1996No. C019008PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MORRISON, J.
This is an environmental cleanup case arising in the context of parallel federal and state statutes and regulations which establish what amounts to a government-run insurance pool. The pool reimburses owners of underground storage tanks who clean up leaks. Caldo Oil Company (Caldo) filed a petition seeking a writ of mandate against the State Water Resources Control Board (Board), which had consolidated two reimbursement claims into one claim, reducing the amount of reimbursement available. Caldo’s principal contention is that a statutory definition of the term “occurrence,”…
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