United States Fourth Circuit

In a superfund case, a party must assert Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensations and Recovery Act claims via that statute itself, rather than via the more general Resource Conservation Recovery Act's direct action provision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2004
• Published 06/08/2004

Judges

• Before WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges, and RICHARD D. BENNETT, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:David Oscar Ledbetter, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants.  Brian Christopher Coffey, Cohn & Baughman, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Andrea W. Wortzel, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia;  Lawrence J. Bracken, II, Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, Georgia;  James L. Werner, Ellzey & Brooks, L.L.C., Columbia, South Carolina;  Claron A. Robertson, III, Robertson & Hollingsworth, Charleston, South Carolina;  Jacquelyn S. Dickman, Office of General, Department of Health & Environmental Control, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants.  Michael J. Baughman, Cohn & Baughman, Chicago, Illinois;  R. David Howser, Andrew E. Haselden, Howser, Newman & Besley, L.L.C., Columbia, South Carolina;  Timothy A. Domin, Clawson & Staubes, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina;  Richard S. Kuhl, Ngoc H. Lam, Jackson & Campbell, P.C., Washington, D.C.;   Charles J. Baker, Davis S. Yandle, Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees.  Laura A. Foggan, Gary P. Seligman, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.