The Supreme Court on Monday put restrictions on companies that want to voluntarily clean up their polluted land and sue former owners to share the costs. The Court ruled 7-2 against a company that bought Texas land and later went to court to recover some of the $5 million it spent cleaning up pollution there. Justices said the company improperly tried to use the Superfund law to sue. But the Court left open the possibility that another part of the Superfund law could permit such lawsuits.
December 13, 2004 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The Supreme Court on Monday put restrictions on companies that want to voluntarily clean up their polluted land and sue former owners to share the costs.
The Court ruled 7-2 against a company that in 1981 bought land in Texas that had been used for aircraft engine maintenance businesses and then went to court to recover some of the $5 million it spent cleaning up pollution there.
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