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UNION OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA v. LEAVELL

No. 99-3084.

220 F.3d 562 (2000)

UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dan LEAVELL, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 18, 2000.

Rehearing Denied August 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Pautler (argued), Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Christopher Heid (argued), Carmi, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Members of the Leavell family bought some equipment for their recycling business in 1992. (A closely held corporation was the purchaser. For simplicity we use "the Leavells" to refer to the persons and business entities involved.) Four years later the Leavells demanded that Unocal, the seller, remove the machinery and compensate them for environmental harm that, they insisted, it had caused. According...

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