ELR Citation: ELR 20278
No(s). s. 84-801, -805 (U.S. Jan 27, 1986)

The Court holds that a bankruptcy trustee may not abandon a hazardous waste site when such abandonment would violate reasonable state health and safety laws. The Court notes that before enactment of the Bankruptcy Reform Act in 1978, the courts had judicially limited the trustee's power of abandonme...