FMC Corp. v. Northern Pump Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that private parties may contract to transfer financial responsibilities under CERC-LA
• a release from “all claims, demands and causes of action” was held to encompass CERCLA claims without explicit reference to the statute
• “... 42 U.S.C. § 9607(e)(1) clearly provides that CERCLA liability is not sufficient for the recovery of costs between private parties where one such party has released the other from its CERCLA liability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).