Environmental
Dec. 14, 2000
Shared Responsibility
In a major victory for current owners of property forced to pay environmental cleanup costs of contamination they did not cause, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that parties that owned the property in the interim between the initial disposal of hazardous materials and the present may also be liable. Carson Harbor Village Ltd. v. Unocal Corp., 227 F.3d 1196 (9th Cir. 2000).
In a major victory for current owners of property forced to pay environmental cleanup costs of contamination they did not cause, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that parties that owned the property in the interim between the initial disposal of hazardous materials and the ...
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