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AMCAST INDUS. CORP. v. DETREX CORP.

No. 92-2365.

2 F.3d 746 (1993)

AMCAST INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION and Elkhart Products Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DETREX CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Palmer, May, Oberfell & Lorber, South Bend, IN, D. Jeffrey Ireland, Ann Wightman, Mary L. Wiseman, Faruki, Gilliam & Ireland, Dayton, OH, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Arthur G. Surgine, Jr., James J. Shea, Hunt, Suedhoff, Borror & Eilbacher, Fort Wayne, IN, Paul S. Koczkur, Bradley S. Mitseff, Harvey, Kruse, Westen & Milan, Troy, MI, John Gerald Gleeson, Howard & Howard, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for defendant-appellant.

Before POSNER, FLAUM, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to explore the outer limits of the "Superfund" statute — the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq. We must decide whether, as the district court concluded, the Act extends to any chemical spill that creates an environmental hazard. 779 F.Supp. 1519. This is an important question that has not...

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