United States v. Charter International Oil Company, Acushnet Company, Proposed Intervenors-Appellees

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• holding that the district court’s assessment must include “an appraisal of what the government is being given by the [settling party] relative to what the [settling party] is receiving”
• holding that the district court’s assessment must include “an appraisal of what the government is being given by the [settling party] relative to what the [settling party] is receiving”
• holding that the district court’s assessment must include “an appraisal of what the government is being given by the [settling party] relative to what the [settling party] is receiving”
• analyzing whether settlement was reasonable in light of “the government's total unrecovered response costs of $4 million”
• surveying empirical research on the “huge resources going into the transactions costs of CERCLA litigation” and observing that reducing these costs was a primary objective of the 1986 amendments to the statute
• “The prior settlements are explicitly referenced and described in the Charter decree. Under such circumstances we may consider these prior settlements in interpreting the decree”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).