Browning-Ferris Industries of Illinois, Inc. v. Richard Ter Maat

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a portion of plaintiffs response costs should be allocated to a defendant whose “pollution was serious enough ... to require that the site be cleaned up”
• holding if officer commits act outside scope of official duties, employer may not be liable, but officer can be liable, whether or not act within that scope
• stating “it is hard to see how a voluntary creditor can complain if he knows that his debtor lacks sufficient assets to be certain to be able to pay the debt when it comes due”
• if corporate president and principal shareholder supervised daily operations of polluting landfill, then he could be held jointly liable with corporate defendants
• hold- ing that district court “did not abuse [its] discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).