The John S. Boyd Company, Inc. v. Boston Gas Company, New England Electric System

How courts have described this case

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• incorporating state law into federal law to construe an agreement pertaining to CERCLA liability
• describing NEES’s control over Lynn Gas, another of its gas subsidiaries managed in a similar fashion to Salem Gas
• incorporating state law into federal law to construe an agreement pertaining to CERCLA liability
• describing agreements 5 contemplated by § 9607(e)(1) as “tangential to the enforcement of CERCLA”
• operator liability of a parent company under CERCLA is direct; it does not require piercing the corporate veil
• parent corporations liable “for the oil gas waste created while they were linked to the Lynn Gas Co.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).