Trinity American Corporation v. The United States Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the “technological and scientific questions at the outer limits of a court’s competence” (cleaned up)
• contaminated groundwater testing produced “an ‘irregular pattern’ of both low and high levels of contaminants at different times”
• “Generally, CERCLA imposes strict liability on the owner of the property at the time an enforcement action is brought, even if that party did not own the property when the pollution took place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).