Mealey's (March 26, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 15 upheld a federal judge in California’s dismissal with prejudice of a woman’s lawsuit accusing Chevron Corp. of contaminating her property, finding that the suit was barred by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act’s (CERCLA) petroleum exception (Hong Jacqueline Nguyen Gardner v. Chevron Capital Corp., No. 16-1691, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 7081)....