SMW Stops Tosco from Evading Liability By Selling Polluting Facility
October 7, 2002The firm obtains a Ninth Circuit ruling that Tosco Corporation cannot escape liability for decades of pollution from its petroleum-coke loading plant in Pittsburg by selling that facility during litigation. (San Francisco BayKeeper, Inc. v. Tosco Corporation, 309 F.3d 1153 (9th Cir. 2002).)