United States v. Apex Oil Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that bankruptcy didn’t discharge an injunction requiring an environmental clean-up
• “If for example you have a decree of specific performance (a type of injunction and therefore an equitable remedy
• “That equitable remedies are always orders to act or not to act, rather than to pay, is a myth; equity often orders payment.”
• “That equitable remedies are always orders to act or not to act, rather than to pay, is a myth; equity often orders payment.”
• “[T]he government’s equitable claim ... entitles the government only to require the defendant to clean up the contaminated site at the defendant’s expense.... The plaintiff in our case (the government
• “[I]f the holder of an equitable claim can, in the event the equitable remedy turns out to be unobtainable, obtain a money judgment instead, the claim is discharageable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).