ARCO Cites High Court CERCLA Case To Boost Superfund Ruling Appeal

An oil company is asking the Supreme Court to accept, but place on hold, its appeal of a Superfund case that parallels litigation the high court accepted for review last month that is expected to test what is required for a settlement to trigger Superfund contribution protection and its corresponding statute of limitations. Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Feb. 11 filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the high court in ARCO v. Asarco , asking it to...