Environmental
Apr. 10, 2001
Equitable Rescue
A complete legal defense may still be a long shot, but that doesn't mean that liable-but-innocent parties can't ultimately prevail.
Owners who discover contamination on their property might think they are off the hook if they didn't cause the pollution - but that doesn't make them innocent in the eyes of the law. Although there is an "innocent landowner" defense under the Superfund law, very few have successfully invoked it.<...
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