Edward Hines Lumber Company v. Vulcan Materials Company, Osmose Wood Preserving, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant was not an operator since it \did not interfere with operational decisions\
• CERCLA does not bar an action available under state law for contribution for costs incurred
• “The statute does not fix liability on slipshod architects, clumsy engineers, poor construction contractors, or negligent suppliers of on-the-job training . . . .”
• entity supplying toxic substance to factory, which it had also designed, did not “operate” factory when toxic substance leaked into groundwater
• entity No. 22-1789 MRP Properties Co., LLC v. United States Page 8 supplying toxic substance to factory, which it had also designed, did not “operate” factory when toxic substance leaked into groundwater
• supplier of chemical used to treat lumber not \operator\ of wood treatment facility even though supplier also designed and built facility, trained employees how to operate machinery, and licensed its trademark for use in connection with treated wood

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).