Employers Insurance of Wausau, a Mutual Company v. Carol M. Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

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• arguments pressed before the district court but not raised in appellant’s opening brief are forfeited even if developed in reply brief
• unauthorized agency action may be “disregard[ed] . . . as void, a nullity”
• “If a party ordered to clean up doesn’t want to spend any money, it can refuse to obey the order .... The energy that Employers Insurance devoted in its briefs to attempting to create constitutional qualms about the remedial structure of the Superfund law was misdirected.”
• describing a PRP’s options in this scenario

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