waste-disposal

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-687 MRP Properties Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Amici (1) cercla cercla-liability corporate-disclosure environmental-regulation environmental-regulations facility-operator operator-liability pollution-producing-activities statutory-interpretation waste-disposal waste-disposal-activities When analyzing whether an entity is a facility 'operator' under CERCLA, should courts consider pollution-producing activities that the entity managed,…
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
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…