United States v. Summit Equipment & Supplies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “[Defendants] cannot avoid [CERCLA] liability simply by keeping blinders on during the transaction.”
• plant operators liable under § 9607(a)(3) when they closed plants and auctioned used, surplus equipment containing hazardous substances; fact that equipment was in working order at time of sale did not preclude liability
• CERCLA; sellers of used, surplus equipment at blind auction sales were liable as generators of hazardous substances, even if they did not know that the purchaser intended to scrap the equipment rather than reusing it.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).