Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting constitutional challenge to environmental statute imposing remedial cleanup costs on pre-enactment disposal activities irrespective of timeframe in which such disposals occurred
• “the language and legislative history of the 1986 amendment [authorizing prejudgment interest] reveal no statutory direction or congressional intent to delay its application”
• “The plain language of [section 9607(a)(2) ] extends liability to owners of waste facilities regardless of their degree of participation in the subsequent disposal of hazardous waste.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).