Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that self-serving “ulterior motive[s]” should be disregarded when determining whether response costs are necessary because “[t]o hold otherwise would result in a disincentive for cleanup”
• holding that response costs are \necessary\ when the response action is addressed to a threat to human health or the environment
• holding that “leaking” may not “require affirmative . . . conduct” (internal quotation marks omitted
• holding that while disposal does not include passive soil migration, it may include other forms of passive migration
• holding that “leaking” may not “require affirmative . . . conduct” (internal quotation marks omitted
• explaining that when Congress meant to include chemical or geological process or passive migration, it employed specific terminology, such as leaching

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).