United States Ninth Circuit

A company that discharged pollutants into soil at the government's direction in a war production plant during World War II, cannot be ordered to pay part of the cost of cleaning up those pollutants under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2001
• Decided 08/06/2002
• Published 08/06/2002

Judges

• Before D.W. NELSON, O'SCANNLAIN, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey C. Dobbins, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward W. Warren, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for the appellee.