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Real Estate/Development

Oct. 14, 2000

Migration Headache

The 9th Circuit has chosen the minority view on the liability of passive intervening owners.

        By William D. Wick
        
        Former landowners are liable for cleaning up contamination caused before they acquired the property and discovered after they sold it, even if they never knew about it. Carson Harbor Village Ltd. v. Unocal Corp., 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10199 (9th Cir. Sept. 14, 2000). The 9th U.S. Circu...

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