United States Second Circuit

Orders dismissing plaintiff state's claims against the dissolved corporation defendant's shareholder-distributees and denying the corporation defendant's trustees' motion to dismiss the CERCLA claims against defendant are affirmed as to the dismissal of claims against the shareholder-distributees. However, the judgment granted to plaintiff on its CERCLA claims against defendant is reversed as the district court erred in holding that CERCLA preempted Delaware's limits on defendant's capacity to be sued.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/06/2006
• Decided 08/28/2007
• Published 08/28/2007

Judges

• JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge., Before: JACOBS, POOLER, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard P. Dearing, Assistant Solicitor General of the State of New York, and Eugene J. Leff, Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee State of New York and Alexander Grannis ., Gita F. Rothschild, law firm of McCarter & English, LLP, and Mark F. Rosenberg, law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, for Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants Daniel Rosenbloom, Firmanco Associates, and First Manhattan Company., Robert L. Tofel and Mark A. Lopeman, Tofel & Partners, LLP, for Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants Andreas Gal, Estate of Paul Lazare, Norman Halper, Oliver Lazare., Brian M. Cogan, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Goldman Sachs & Company.