[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Whittaker can sue federal government" for cost recovery at the Bermite site (CA)

[Lenny Siegel]

Federal appellate court rules Whittaker can sue federal government


By Jim Holt
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
July 6, 2016

Officials with Whittaker Corporation who want the federal government to cover their cost of cleaning up close to 1,000 acres of contaminated land these past two decades received a favorable court ruling recently from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A panel of appellate court judges listened to arguments made by Whittaker attorney Kevin M. Fong on June 13 as he argued for the company’s right to recover expenses incurred since the cleanup began in the 1980s.

In the end, the federal appeals court agreed with Fong and concluded that Whittaker was not barred from bringing a “cost recovery action against the United States.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.signalscv.com/section/36/article/154161/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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