ApocaDocs: Justices Limit Liability Over Toxic Spill Cases

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Posted Tue May 5 2009: from New York Times:


	Justices Limit Liability Over Toxic Spill Cases http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1241534062 The Supreme Court made it harder on Monday for the government to recover the often enormous costs of environmental cleanups from companies with only minor or limited responsibility for toxic spills. The decision tightened the reach of the Superfund law, known formally as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, by limiting both the kinds of companies subject to liability and the situations in which partly culpable companies can be made to bear the entire cost of cleanups.

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