Reader v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that newly added claims “based on different conduct, in a different location, and attributable to different [individuals] than the claims set forth in [the original] pleading” did not relate back
• noting that “resolution occurs when a [PRP] is released from CERCLA liability”
• applying a limitations period to each settlement agreement when determining whether the plaintiff’s § 113(f)(3)(B) claims are time barred
• “[T]he basic claim must have arisen out of the conduct set forth in the original pleading.”
• “[T]he principal purpose of limitations periods in [CERCLA cases is] ‘ensuring that the responsible parties get to the bargaining—and clean-up—table sooner rather than later.’” (cleaned up
• “[W]e have held that CERCLA encompasses such successor liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).