United States First Circuit

A declaratory judgment that parent company operated a subsidiary's facility that discharged pollutants remains unaffected by later case law regarding a parent company's liability for actions of its subsidiary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/03/2001

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LISI, District Court Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Daniel Berry, with whom William Carter, William S. Eggling and Ropes & Gray, were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joan M. Pepin, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom John C. Cruden, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John T. Stahr, Donald G. Frankel, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Lloyd Selbst, Senior Enforcement Counsel, and Nina Rivera, Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, were on brief, for appellee.