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· 1/25/1983

Wertz v. United States

Citations

  • 2 Cl. Ct. 45
  • 1983 U.S. Claims LEXIS 1875

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that CERCLA claims could not be brought against dissolved Washington corporation after expiration of Washington’s two-year corporate capacity term
  • finding that CERCLA’s § 9613(g) did not preempt Washington statute which prescribed time within which a dissolved corporation retained its capacity to be sued
  • holding Rule 15 did not apply were the plaintiffs “knew who those parties were and made a mistake in who it ought to sue under the circumstances”

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Judges: Harkins

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