Legal Opinion
Colón Cabrera v. Esso Standard Oil Co. (Puerto Rico), Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 17, 2013No. 11-2477PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Manuel Colón Cabrera filed suit against appellee Esso Standard Oil Company under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 6972, seeking to compel Esso to remediate environmental contamination at a gas station he owned. After lengthy proceedings in the district court and in a concurrent action in the Puerto Rico commonwealth courts, Colón Cabrera filed a motion for voluntary dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(2), stating that the federal lawsuit was no longer necessary in light of Esso’s alleged concession that it would…
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