ARCO Drops Pursuit Of High Court Review in CERCLA Contribution Case

Oil company Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) has dropped its request for the Supreme Court to review and reverse a Superfund ruling that forced it to face contribution claims at a Montana site, in a case that was linked to the high court’s recent holding that non-Superfund settlements do not trigger the law’s contribution claims and its three-year statute of limitations. In ARCO v. Asarco , both ARCO, the petitioner, and respondent Asarco “jointly move to voluntarily dismiss the petition for...