People v. Dismel

How courts have described this case

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

• “A current owner may be liable for clean-up costs as against the Fund ... ”
• property owner “most likely to be in position to halt the discharge, to effect an immediate cleanup, or to prevent a discharge in the first place”
• strict liability has been imposed on owners of real property on which a petroleum discharge occurs, even when the owner “unwittingly took title to property containing one or more undisclosed underground storage tanks”
• “This court has consistently construed Navigation Law § 181(1) so as to impose liability on the owner of a system from which a discharge occurred in the absence of evidence that the owner caused or contributed to the discharge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).