Western Fire Ins. v. University City

How courts have described this case

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

• applying CERCLA to spill of “hazardous wastes [that] have commingled with the petroleum products in the soil and [were] floating on the groundwater beneath the refinery…”
• former owner that incurred remediation expenses was awarded a portion of the re sponse costs under a public nuisance claim against another, prior former owner
• “The plaintiff in a CERCLA response cost recovery action involving multiple potentially responsible persons need not prove a specific causal link between costs incurred and an individual responsible person’s waste”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).