Environmental Advisory: Supreme Court Preserves a Potentially Responsible Party's Right to Recover Cleanup Costs Under Federal Superfund Law
6/15/2007
May an owner of contaminated property, or anyone else potentially liable under federal law, voluntarily cleanup that property and then seek to recover the cleanup costs from others? Until now, some courts said yes while others said no. The United States Supreme Court has now answered the question with a unanimous yes.
This Mintz Levin Advisory reviews the Court's decision in United States v. Atlantic Research Corp., U.S. No. 06-652 (June 11, 2007)
