Johnson v. James Langley Operating Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]esting methods that are scientifically deficient or unduly costly cannot be necessary.”
• “Testing and sampling expenses are necessary only if the party seeking to recover costs has an objectively reasonable relief that the defendant’s release or threatened release of hazardous substances would contaminate his or her property.”
• “CERCLA’s plain language does not incorporate any quantitative threshold into its definition of hazardous substances.”
• “[T]he motives of the private party attempting to recoup response costs ... are irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).