Ruling on entitlement to Superfund recovery against polluter not directed to clean up [US SC]

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Ruling on entitlement to Superfund recovery against polluter not directed to clean up [US SC]

Bernard Hibbitts

December 13, 2004 01:06:00 pm

Cooper Industries v. Aviall Services, United States Supreme Court, December 13, 2004 [ruling 7-2 that a company had improperly used the federal Superfund law to sue a former polluting owner when there had been no directive to undertake a cleanup]. Read the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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University of Alabama desegregated after governor ends blockade

On June 11, 1963, the University of Alabama desegregated when Governor George Wallace, facing Alabama National Guard troops federalized by President Kennedy, ended his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allowed two African-American students to enroll.

Read the text of President Kennedy's Civil Rights speech, delivered on this day.