Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. v. NL Industries

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that even inapplicable indemnification provisions can be considered to determine intent of parties to allocate contribution responsibility
• “[T]he issue •is not whether the indemnity provisions apply to this case or are enforceable, but what the parties intended as to allocation.”
• “Because CERCLA imposes strict liability, a plaintiff generally does not need to prove that the defendant caused the contamination, only that the defendant is a ‘covered person.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).