Mealey's (February 18, 2021, 1:46 PM EST) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 17 overruled challenges by third-party defendants in a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act lawsuit to a settlement resolving claims between the owners of two companies that conducted operations at a Superfund site in Rhode Island, the federal government and a number of federal agencies, finding that the judge sufficiently considered the cleanup work that needed to be done as part of the settlement and that the $550,000 the government and its agencies agreed to pay was not “nepotistically brokered.”...