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The Reemergence Of Nuisance Law In Environmental Litigation, Alan Weinstein
The Reemergence Of Nuisance Law In Environmental Litigation, Alan Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In the summer of 1980, Chicago's beaches were fouled by raw and inadequately treated sewage, allegedly discharged into Lake Michigan by the Hammond (Indiana) Sanitary District. Clearly, Illinois and Chicago officials wanted to stop pollution of the lake. Surprisingly, they turned to the common law of nuisance, rather than to a regulatory agency or a statutory citizens' suit to obtain relief, charging the city of Hammond and the sanitary district with violations of the Illinois common law of nuisance. While planners are generally familiar with the application of common law nuisance doctrines to resolve disputes between conflicting uses of land, …
Judicial Development Of Standards Of Liability In Government Enforcement Actions Under The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation And Liability Act, Stephen Q. Giblin, Dennis M. Kelly
Judicial Development Of Standards Of Liability In Government Enforcement Actions Under The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation And Liability Act, Stephen Q. Giblin, Dennis M. Kelly
Cleveland State Law Review
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) represents the first major attempt on a national level to address the problem of abandoned hazardous waste sites. CERCLA permits an action to be brought in federal court for recovery of amounts disbursed from the Superfund against, inter alia, any person who arranges for treatment or disposal of wastes at a site, typically the generator of the hazardous wastes. CERCLA's enforcement provisions contain numerous ambiguities and apparent inconsistencies on issues that directly affect the potential liability of CERCLA's defendants. Many of the inadequacies probably can be traced to the …
When Is One Generator Liable For Another's Waste, Kenneth C. Moore, Kathiann M. Kowalski
When Is One Generator Liable For Another's Waste, Kenneth C. Moore, Kathiann M. Kowalski
Cleveland State Law Review
Since the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund Act) was adopted as a compromise bill by the lame duck Congress in December of 1980, companies that generated and disposed of hazardous wastes at off-site facilities have been seriously concerned about the question of when one company can be held liable for clean-up and other response costs associated with another company's wastes. Two issues are central to the question of when one generator may be liable for another's waste: 1) whether and to what extent a causal connection must be shown to exist between a generator's waste …