Property Owner's $10,000 Settlement Offer For Cleanup Is Reasonable, Judge Finds

(August 12, 2020, 1:33 PM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California on July 29 approved as fair and reasonable a third-party defendant's offer to pay $10,000 toward remediation at a former metal plating site in West Sacramento, Calif., finding that the amount is close to the 1 percent of contamination it is responsible for at the property (West Sacramento v. R&L Business Management, et al., No. 18-CV-00900, E.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134610)....