United States Ninth Circuit

In an action to determine allocation of cleanup costs of a Superfund site, CERCLA section 9620(a)(1) waives the sovereign immunity of the U.S.; the U.S. is not liable for non-benzol waste cleanup, but 100% of the cleanup costs for benzol waste should be allocated to the U.S.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/04/2001
• Decided 06/28/2002
• Published 06/28/2002

Judges

• Before:  TROTT, THOMAS and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Todd S. Kim, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee United States., Timothy R. Patterson, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, San Diego, CA, for plaintiff-cross-appellee State of California., Ronald L. Olson, Peter R. Taft, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Shell Oil Company, et al.