United States First Circuit

Judgment in favor of plaintiff's suit, seeking contribution for groundwater cleanup related to an environment disaster, is affirmed over the affirmative defenses raised by defendant-waste hauler, which included statute of limitations, res judicata, and contribution immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2004
• Published 08/19/2004

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SARIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mortimer C. Newton, was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Armstrong, with whom Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP was on brief, for appellee.