We have previously discussed the series of district court rulings in Voggenthaler v Maryland Square LLC where homeowners and the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) sued past and former owners of a shopping center and operators of a former dry cleaner because of a mile-long groundwater plume resulting from PCE spills from the dry cleaner […]
The United States Court of Appeals finally issued its much anticipated ruling in PCS Nitrogen v Ashley II of Charleston, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 6815 (4th Cir. 4/4/13) last week. However, the wait turned out to be much ado about nothing. The court affirmed the district court rulings but did not clarify perhaps the most
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral argument in early December on the appeal of the Ashley II of Charleston v PCS Nitrogen decision, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104772 (D.S.C. 9/20/10). The case involves a 43-acre Columbia Nitrogen Superfund Site in the Upper Peninsula area of Charleston, South Carolina. The
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