CARSON HARBOR VILLAGE, LTD. v. UNOCAL CORP.

Nos. 98-55056, 98-55107, 98-55210, 98-55213, 98-55215, 98-55422.

227 F.3d 1196 (2000)

CARSON HARBOR VILLAGE, LTD., a limited partnership dba Carson Harbor Village Mobilhome Park, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. UNOCAL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corp., Defendant-cross-defendant, and City of Carson, Defendant-cross-defendant-cross-claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Gooch, III; Chris M. Amantea, Santa Monica, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Lisa Bond, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee City of Carson.

Thomas C. Sites, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee City of Compton (did not argue).

Charles Jordan, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Unocal.

Walter L. Lipsman, Douglas J. Collodel, Richard H. Nakamura Jr. (argued) and Janet M. Richardson, Morris, Polich & Purdy, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Carson Harbor Village.

Kristin E.D. Dunn, Long Beach, California, for defendant-appellee County of L.A. (did not argue).

Before: FLETCHER and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, District Judge.


FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

The current owner of land contaminated by storm water runoff and oil production filed this action against prior owners and operators of the property, as well as certain local government entities, to recover cleanup costs under, inter alia, the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. § 9607(a), and California common law. The district court dismissed the case on cross motions for...

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