Judge Abstains From RCRA Suit Over Site Contamination

Mealey's (March 28, 2019, 1:29 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas on March 26 dismissed a company’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act lawsuit seeking to have two other companies and a trust pay for investigating, remediating and monitoring contamination at site where they conducted operations, finding that the court should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over the case due to an earlier proceeding brought by the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment (KDHE) (Raytheon Co. v. NCR Corp., et al., No. 18-2402-CM-GEB, D. Kan., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49785)....