IN RE GRIFFIN

Citator

Cited By (18 total)

• Mostoufi v. Presto Food Stores, Inc., 618 So. 2d 1372 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993)
  …tes a number of federal cases which hold that the doctrine of caveat emptor is not a defense to actions brought pursuant to the FWPCA, 33 U.S.C.A. § 1365. See Smith Land & Improvement Corp. v. Celotex Corp., 851 F. 2d 86 (3d Cir.1988), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 1029, 109 S.Ct. 837, 102 L.Ed.2d 969 (1989). However, the reason for not applying the caveat emptor rule in regard to the federal act is that the private or “citizens suits” authorized by section 1365 have been clearly interpreted to provide for private…
• Indep. Fed'n of Flight Attendants v. Zipes, 491 U.S. 754 (U.S. 1989)
  …to approximately $1.25 million it had earlier awarded against TWA from the settlement fund. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals affirmed. Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., 846 F. 2d 434 (1988). We granted the union’s petition for certiorari, 488 U. S. 1029 (1989). H h — I In Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U. S. 240 (1975), this Court reaffirmed what has come to be known as the “American Rule.” Put simply, “[i]n the United States, the prevailing litigant is ordinarily not ent…
• Redwing Carriers, Inc. v. Saraland Apts., 94 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir. 1996)
  …debts. As several jurists have noted, Congress passed CERC-LA in great haste and in the process left many holes in its framework for courts to fill in. Smith Land & Improvement Corp. v. Celotex Corp., 851 F. 2d 86, 91 (3d Cir.1988), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 1029, 109 S.Ct. 837, 102 L.Ed.2d 969 (1989); Dedham Water Co. v. Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc., 805 F. 2d 1074, 1080 (1st Cir.1986). One of the more significant gaps in CERCLA’s scheme arises where the right to recovery created by the Act confronts state…