Massachusetts v. Blackstone Valley Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

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• corporate officers entitled to summary judgment where the evidence established that they had not personally participated in conduct that violated CERCLA
• “To hold an officer liable ... he must have personally participated in the conduct that violated CERCLA”; “[defendants] were not personally involved in the storing of hazardous waste.”
• discovery of hazardous material and smearing of some on bulldozer track is insufficient to establish “disposal of hazardous waste” under CERCLA provision holding liable any person who arranged for disposal of hazardous substances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).