United States Eighth Circuit

District court's assignment and apportionment of liability for certain environmental cleanup costs pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is affirmed over claims that the district court erred in apportioning liability, that an earlier holding finding a company liable should be overturned, and that the district court's imposition of retroactive liability was unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2006
• Published 07/13/2006

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, FAGG, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Gordon Hamlin, Jr., argued, Atlanta, GA (V. Robert Denham, Jr., Leah J. Knowlton, Tara P. Kinney, Atlanta, Laurence H. Tribe, Jonathan S. Massey, Cambridge, MA, N.M. Norton, Little Rock, AR, James K. Logan, Overland Park Kansas, on the brief), for appellant Hercules., Steven W. Quattlebaum, arued, Little Rock, AR (E.B. Chiles IV and Joseph Falasco, Little Rock, on the brief), for appellant Crompton.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Oakley, Dept. of Justice, argued, Washington, D.C. (Samuel D. Blesi, Paul Schaeffer, Greer S. Goldman of the Justice Dept., Washington, D.C., Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant Attorney General, Erik Swenson, EPA, Washington D.C., James L. Turner, EPA, of Dallas, TX, on the brief), for appellee.