Legal Opinion
American Cyanamid Co v. A. Capuano Brothers
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 19, 2004No. 03-2143Published
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
In 1977, Warren Picillo, Sr. and his wife agreed to allow part of their pig farm in Coventry, Rhode Island (“Picillo site”) to be used as a disposal site for drummed and bulk waste. Later that year, after thousands of barrels of hazardous waste replaced what pigs at one time called home, a monstrous explosion ripped through the Picillo site. The towering flames, lasting several days, brought the waste site to the attention of the Rhode Island environmental authorities. Rhode Island investigators “discovered large trenches and pits filled with free-flowing,…
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- McDermott, Inc. v. AmClydeSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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