Judge: Company Cannot Relitigate Allocation Of Natural Resource Damages

Mealey's (January 6, 2017, 10:31 AM EST) -- GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal judge in Wisconsin on Jan. 3 granted the federal government’s motion in limine to preclude a defendant company from arguing that allocations for natural resource damages in consent decrees between the government and parties that contributed to contamination at the Lower Fox River Superfund site were too high, holding that the company was over-reading the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act’s section on double recovery (United States of America v. NCR Corporation, et al., No. 10-C-910, E.D. Wis.; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 257)....