Seattle City Light v. Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Department of Transportation was liable under the MTCA, but that it was not responsible for any of the cleanup costs
• observing that the quantity and toxicity of a hazardous substance is irrelevant to liability, but such considerations can be considered in apportioning costs, citing to the \Gore\ factors
• “no minimum level of ‘hazardous substance’ is required to trigger MTCA liability”
• MTCA makes strict and joint and several liability express
• MTCA makes strict and joint and several liability express

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).