United States v. Sterling Centrecorp Inc.

ELR Citation: 50 ELR 20235
No(s). 18-15585 (9th Cir. Oct 5, 2020)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling in a lawsuit concerning the U.S. government's and California's recovery of cleanup costs from a hazardous waste spill in the Sierra Nevada foothills that released toxic amounts of arsenic into local groundwater. Plaintiffs sued the company that had acq...