Long Beach Unified School District v. Dorothy B. Godwin California Living Trust, and Mobil Oil Corporation, Powerine Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that the circular definition of “owner” implies that the term is read according to its plain and ordinary meaning rather than technically
• reasoning that the circular definition of “owner” implies that the term is read according to its plain and ordinary meaning rather than technically
• pointing out this “is a bit like defining ‘green’ as ‘green’ ”
• “To be an operator of a hazardous waste facility, a party must do more than stand by and fail to prevent the contamination”
• “[W]hen a party uses the easement to operate a pipeline that releases hazardous materials, it is liable as an operator provided the other statutory elements [of CERCLA] are satisfied.”
• “[W]e read [CERCLA] as incorporating the common law definition of its terms.... The common law does not regard an easement holder as the owner of the property burdened by it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).