Legal Opinion
NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 25, 2014No. Nos. 13-2447, 13-2522, 13-2568, 13-2570, 13-2572, 13-2605, 13-2606, 13-2607, 13-2631, 13-2645, 13-2866PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
The invention of carbonless copy paper by NCR Corporation in the mid-1950s solved a small problem and created a large one. Though it alleviated the messy side effects of carbon paper for those who wanted copies in the pre-photocopy era, over the next quarter-century it became clear that the cost of this convenience was large-scale environmental contamination. That is because, until the early 1970s, the substance coating the paper included poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a highly toxic pollutant. In the course of producing the carbonless paper, large quantities of PCBs…
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