environmental-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A364 BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete coastal-erosion environmental-liability federal-preemption land-use oil-and-gas state-law Whether state courts can impose environmental remediation liability on oil and gas companies for coastal land erosion under Louisiana state law withou…
22-465 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations Does a bare declaratory judgment that determines liability but imposes no 'costs' and awards no 'damages' trigger CERCLA's three-year statute of limit…
22-126 Gould Electronics, Inc. v. Livingston County Road Commission Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Relisted (2) cercla cost-recovery environmental-liability expert-witness expert-witness-fees lobbying necessary-costs-of-response recovery regulatory-determination remedial-action tce-contamination Are fees paid to an expert witness and consultant for lobbying and testimony 'necessary costs of response' under CERCLA?
20-1142 Atlantic Richfield Company v. Asarco LLC Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived bankruptcy cercla contribution contribution-claim environmental-liability judicial-settlement liability response-action settlement statutory-interpretation Whether a judicially approved settlement that conclusively determines a party's obligation to perform response actions 'resolves its liability' for 's…
20-382 Territory of Guam v. United States District of Columbia 2020-09-24 Judgment Issued Amici (3) cercla clean-water-act comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree contribution contribution-claim environmental-law environmental-liability judicial-settlement statute-of-limitations Whether a non-CERCLA settlement can trigger a contribution claim under CERCLA Section 113(f)(3)(B)
18-1160 Teck Metals Ltd., fka Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (3) arranger-liability cercla cercla-arranger-liability cross-border-pollution environmental-liability extraterritorial-application first-circuit-conflict first-circuit-split morrison-v-national-australia-bank personal-jurisdiction rjr-nabisco-v-european-community walden-v-fiore waste-disposal Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly concluded that holding Teck liable for its discharges in Canada was not an impermissible extraterritorial applicat…