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Passing The Hat For CERCLA Cleanup Costs: If You Clean Up, Will Others Chip In? Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. www.shb.com

Derek J. Lisk | Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

If you pay to clean up a toxic mess, can you use the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) to make another responsible party contribute to the cost? At the moment, the answer seems to be a resounding "maybe." In January the U.S. Supreme Court accepted a...