WHITEHOUSE v. LAROCHE

No. 00-1127.

277 F.3d 568 (2002)

Sheldon WHITEHOUSE, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island, and Jan Reitsma, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. David LAROCHE, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 17, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terence J. Tierney, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Gary Powers, Deputy Chief Legal Counsel, Department of Environmental Management, was on brief for appellants.

Barry J. Kusinitz for appellee David LaRoche.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges,


CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal by the Rhode Island Attorney General and the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management challenges various rulings which prompted the district court to hold that appellee David LaRoche's obligations to the State of Rhode Island, for its costs in remediating water contamination on property owned by LaRoche and for related civil penalties, were expunged by the chapter 7 discharge subsequently obtained by...

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