Judge Remands City’s Suit Seeking Order Saying Cleanup Must Follow Contracts Code

Mealey's (May 22, 2020, 2:29 PM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California city’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that remedial activities required to clean up perchloroethylene (PCE) contamination at a site that formerly housed a dry cleaning business should be subject to the state’s public contracts code was remanded by a federal judge in California on May 20, the judge found that the city’s lawsuit is not an attack on a February 2019 order that requires the party to share future cleanup costs (City of Visalia v. Mission Linen Supply Inc., No. 19-CV-1809, E.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89052)....