RAWLS

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

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• Redwing Carriers, Inc. v. Saraland Apts., 94 F.3d 1489 (11th Cir. 1996)
  …acility. In most of these cases, where the focus is on allowing state and federal governments to recoup their expenses, defendants are held jointly and severally hable. See, e.g., O’Neil v. Picillo, 883 F. 2d 176, 183 (1st Cir.1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1071, 110 S.Ct. 1115, 107 L.Ed.2d 1022 (1990); Monsanto, 858 F. 2d at 171-73. Joint and several liability under § 107(a) is not automatic, however. Recognizing Congress’ intent that “traditional and evolving common law principles” should define the scop…
• United States v. Orestes Luciano Abreu, 962 F.2d 1425 (10th Cir. 1992)
  ….2d 229 (1990); United States v. Alvarado, 882 F. 2d 645, 653-54 (2d Cir.1989) (jury could reasonably infer that guns locked in safe were there to protect money and drugs in the event drug deal went sour, thus implicating § 924(c)(1)), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1071, 110 S.Ct. 1114, 107 L.Ed.2d 1021 (1990); United States v. Matra, 841 F. 2d 837, 839, 841-43 (8th Cir.1988) (not unreasonable to infer that machine gun hidden under frame of waterbed served to protect defendant’s cocaine and cash and was therefore “…
• B.F. Goodrich Co. v. Murtha, 958 F.2d 1192 (2d Cir. 1992)
  …Shore Realty Corp., 759 F. 2d 1032, 1042 (2d Cir.1985). Where the environmental harm is indivisible liability is joint and several. See O’Neil v. Picillo, 883 F. 2d 176, 178-79 (1st Cir.1989), cert. denied sub nom. American Cyanamid Co. v. O’Neil, 493 U.S. 1071, 110 S.Ct. 1115, 107 L.Ed.2d 1022 (1990); United States v. R.W. Meyer, Inc., 889 F. 2d 1497, 1506-08 (6th Cir.1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1057, 110 S.Ct. 1527, 108 L.Ed.2d 767 (1990). CERCLA establishes four classes of responsible parties liable…