[CPEO-MEF] LITIGATION: "Supreme Court: Guam can pursue $160M dump cleanup lawsuit"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Supreme Court: Guam can pursue $160M dump cleanup lawsuit

Associated Press
Mary 24, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says the U.S. territory of Guam can pursue a $160 million lawsuit against the federal government over the cost of cleaning up a landfill on the island.

The justices on Monday unanimously overturned a lower court decision that had said Guam had waited too long to pursue the claim.

The case before the justices involves a long-running dispute over the Ordot Dump on Guam. The lawsuit says the Navy built the dump during the 1940s and then deposited toxic military waste there before turning over control to Guam in 1950.

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For the entire article, see
https://apnews.com/article/guam-lawsuits-supreme-courts-courts-government-and-politics-742e66b7ab622432d85ed07fdf9b6567

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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