Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• employing term “remedial action” in discussion of federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-75
• “We determine [legislative] intent from what the legislature said, not from what it might or should have said.”
• “[I]f reasonable minds could disagree over the meaning of a word or phrase of a statute, the statute is ambiguous.... ”
• “Under the doctrine of ejusdem generis, general words which follow specific words are tied to the meaning and purpose of the specific words.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).