ELR Citation: ELR 20016
No(s). 93-5021 (3d Cir. Oct 25, 1993)

The court holds that a state's attempt to force a debtor to clean up a waste site that poses an ongoing hazard is not a "claim" that, for purposes of bankruptcy, must have been filed by a date certain, and that the debtor is therefore responsible for cleaning up the site. After the deadline for fili...