Environmental
Jul. 15, 2000
Ownership Inquiry
Centuries of real property law and two decades of Superfund law hadn't settled the issue.
A lessee, even one who sublets the property, is not the property owner. That may seem intuitively obvious to most. But in so deciding last month, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the trend of Superfund case law, reversing the District Court and holding that a lessee (also a s...
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