California Court of Appeal

An administrative abatement action order issued pursuant to the Comprehensive Municipal Environmental Response and Liability Ordinance is preempted by the state Hazardous Substance Account Act because the City is a site listed by the Department of Toxic Substances Control for which the state has exclusive jurisdiction over all remedial response actions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2004
• Published 05/05/2004

Judges

• BLEASE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• D. Stephen Schwabauer, City Attorney;  Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Daniel J. O'Hanlon, Sacramento, Robin Leslie Stewart;  Randall A. Hays;  Envision Law Group, Michael C. Donovan, Cecelia C. Fusich, Brian R. Paget and John R. Till, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Horvitz & Levy, Peter Abrahams, John A. Taylor, Jr., Encino;  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Daniel S. Floyd and Clifton J. McFarland, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Donald A. Robinson, Supervising Attorney General, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant Randtron.