Judge OKs Per Capita Allocation Of Cleanup Costs Among Defaulting Third Parties

(January 3, 2020, 8:11 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Dec. 26 entered judgment against 18 defaulting third-party defendants in a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act contribution action and ordered them to each pay $13,346.60 after finding that it is allowable to require them to pay a per capita allocation of cleanup costs for a former landfill site (New York v. Town of North Hempstead, et al., No. 13-cv-6355, E.D. N.Y.)....

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