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Kenneth A. Hodson & Charles H. Oldham. This article discusses potential liability under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (“CERCLA”) and certain defenses thereto including the Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser (“BFPP”) defense. Under…

Jim Derouin. “Environmental Law” is, on the one hand, a phenomenon—an active, sometimes frenetic, area of the law for the last forty years. On the other hand, it is an ages-long reaction of civilization to, variously, preserve, protect, use and/or…

Michelle De Blasi. The high cost of remediating contaminated sites and the joint and several liability scheme under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) (42 U.S.C. § 9607), as amended, have led the United States Environmental Protection…

Hayleigh S. Crawford. In 2012, public pension systems responsible for providing retirement benefits for hundreds of thousands of state employees were underfunded by an estimated one trillion dollars. The recent recession’s enormous toll on investment earnings, combined with many states’…

Robert D. Anderson, Norm James, Dawn Meidinger & Greg Adams. Standard practice for conducting due diligence as part of real estate transactions has long included an assessment of the potential for a site to have “recognized environmental conditions,” i.e., hazardous…

Bert Acken. Secured creditors can be exempted from liability for contamination from properties for which they hold security interests under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), the Underground Storage Tank (“UST”) program under the Resource Conservation and…

FIFTY: Shades of Grey—Uncertainty About Extrinsic Evidence and Parol Evidence After All These UCC Years David G. Epstein | 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 945 (2013) POSTED: Notice and the Right to Exclude Richard M. Hynes | 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 949 (2013) ORPHANED POLLUTION…

The Future of Clean Elections David Gartner | 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 733 (2013) Foreclosure Mediation in Arizona Art Hinshaw & Timothy Burr | 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 749 (2013) ARIZONA’S WIN-WIN SHORT-TERM CREDIT SOLUTION: Assisting Arizona’s Unbanked and Underbanked…