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COLORADO v. SUNOCO, INC.

No. 02-1014.

337 F.3d 1233 (2003)

State of COLORADO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUNOCO, INC.; Washington Contractors Group, Inc.; Washington Group International, Inc.; Dennis Washington, Defendants, and A.O. Smith Corporation; Asarco, Incorporated; Bechtel Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 5, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Gilbert, Solicitor General, (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, and Robert Marsh, Office of Attorney General, with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Steven W. Black, Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO, for defendant-appellee Asarco, Inc.; Scott E. Mortman, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Bechtel Corporation (Jerry N. Jones and Richard S. Vermeire, Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell LLP, Denver, CO, for defendant-appellee A.O. Smith Corporation; Cassandra Sasso, Baker & Hostetler, Denver, CO; Dennis P. Orr, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Bechtel Corporation, with them on the brief).

James D. Freeman (Thomas L. Sansonett, Assistant Attorney General; John T. Stahr and Mark R. Haag, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division; Alan H. Carpian, Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for the amicus curiae.

Before EBEL, BRISCOE, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge.

BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

The State of Colorado (Colorado) appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds in favor of defendants A.O. Smith Corporation (Smith), ASARCO, Inc., Bechtel Corporation, and Sunoco, Inc., on Colorado's cost recovery claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq. The district court concluded that Colorado...

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