Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that CERCLA § 107(e)(1) 5 allows the contractual allocation of CERCLA liability between private parties, but such an agreement does not alter the parties’ liability to the federal government
• logic and public policy support interpretation that permits parties to transfer financial liability while remaining liable to government for cleanup costs
• “[C]ourts . . . have consistently held that the mere sale of a product is not ‘arranging for disposal’ under [CER- CLA].”
• “[C]ourts . . . have consistently held that the mere sale of a product is not ‘arranging for disposal’ under [CERCLA].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).