California Ex Rel. State Department of Toxic Substances v. Summer Del Caribe, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

BACKGROUND:

Plaintiff sues Defendants for the cost of an environmental cleanup under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. (“CERCLA”). Defendants are seventeen can companies, a metal reclamation facility, two individual officers of that facility, and a corporation that operated a site adjacent to the facility. The Court stayed the action against all Defendants except Summer del Caribe, Inc., Dale Summer, Lynn Rodich, and Castle & Cooke pending the results of an investigation into the…