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U.S. v. AEROJET GENERAL CORP.

No. 08-55996.

606 F.3d 1142 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America; California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Plaintiffs-Appellees, APW North America; Cardinal Industrial Finishes; Eemus Manufacturing Corp.; International Medication Systems, Ltd.; Norf James Jebbia Testamentary Trust; Roc-Aire Corporation; Janneberg Marital Trust; Smittybilt, Inc.; Southern California Edison Company; Andruss Family Trust, Defendants-Appellees, v. AEROJET GENERAL CORP.; Art Weiss, Inc.; Astro Seal, Inc.; Del Ray Industrial Enterprises, Inc.; Shelley Linderman, as Trustee of the Linderman Trust; M & T Company; Multi Chemical Products Inc.; Quaker Chemical Corporation; Time Realty Investments Inc.; Don Tonks; Roy Tonks; Tonks Properties; Art Weiss, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 2, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Alice Thurston, Lisa Elizabeth Jones, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Ann Rushton, Office of the California Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Brian Donald Langa, Demetriou, Del Guercio, Springer & Francis, Los Angeles, CA, Catherine Mitchell Wieman, Peter A. Nyquist, Alston & Bird, Los Angeles, CA, Robert Stephen Niemann, Seyfarth Shaw, San Francisco, CA, Carla Margolis Blanc, Southern California Edison Company, Rosemead, CA, for defendants-appellees.

James Carlyle MacDonald, Thomas Jay Bois, II, Bois & MacDonald, Irvine, CA, Bradley L. Bunch, Law Offices of McCollum & Bunch, Fresno, CA, Stephen Robert Onstot, Walsworth Franklin Bevins & McCall, Los Angeles, CA, Stephen Arthur Tuggy, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, Los Angeles, CA, Lawrence Allen Hobel, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA, for intervenors-appellants.

Before: CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, W. FLETCHER and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-9675 ("CERCLA"), requires certain polluters to pay for cleaning up contaminated sites. After identifying a contaminated site, the federal Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and state environmental agencies typically negotiate with potentially responsible parties ("PRPs") over their shares of comparative responsibility for...

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