How Does The Burlington Northern Supreme Court Case Change CERCLA?

The 8-1 ruling in favor of Shell Oil and Burlington Northern on arranger liability and apportionment issues in The Supreme Court regarding CERCLA is much talked about throughout the legal community and Supreme Court watchers. Here is a link to one of those discussions.

Supreme Court Finds For Shell: Not Liable As An Arranger Under CERCLA

Download the Supreme Court 8-1 ruling here.

Information Ready Litigation Solutions provided document management, workgroup support for Shell Oil Company in this case: litigationsolutions@gmail.com

Using GeoCell Information Technology In Complex Litigation

Classic litigation software can manage complex litigation depending on the workgroup structure of a matter: this may include Summation, Concordance, IPro, Trial Director, Sanction II, Time Map or others. However the issues in complex litigation require a new way of looking at data so it is available and understandable in a moment. That interface is the humble .pdf --super-charged by the new 3d versions of Adobe Acrobat.

By adding and using the concepts of GeoCell information technology as evidenced in everything from US military battlefield information organization to the Access Guides of Richard Saul Wurman and shown to great effect on Gridskipper.com, information no matter how complex can be made available to any member of a trial team. This information can also be presented in court with nothing more than a laptop and a projector without thousands of dollars in additional software or expensive modeling. Documents, grpahics and even 3D models can be created simply in Adobe Acrobat and the main viewer for the resulting .pdfs is free: The Acrobat Reader.

The Shrinking Of The Supreme Court Docket

Interesting article on why the Supreme Court takes fewer cases than it once did.

Information Ready has assisted in the preparation of major cases by providing electronic litigation support to clients such as Shell Oil Company. We helped prepare the major CERCLA case which resulted in an 8-1 favorable ruling for Shell and Burlington Northern in 2009.

Oral Arguments Heard In Major Superfund Cases

On February 24, 2009 The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Burlington No., & Santa Fe R. Co., v. United States, Docket No. 07-1601 and Shell Oil Co., v. United States, Docket No. 07-1607 regarding liability for a Superfund site in Arvin, California. Transcript is available here.

Opinion expected in June 2009.

Supreme Court To Hear Oral Arguments: Burlington No., & Santa Fe R. Co., v. United States, and Shell Oil Co., v. United States

The Supreme will hear oral arguments on Tuesday February 24, 2009 (morning session) in the combined cases of Burlington Northern v. US and Shell Oil Company v. US (Briefs).

This is a landmark case in CERCLA law regarding owner and arranger liability in areas where there have been numerous splits in the Circuit Courts.

The case revolves around a pesticide contamination site near Bakersfield and will be of great interest to landowners and manufacturers of products across the country.

Information Ready Litigation Solutions has provided litigation support, trial presentation, and research for Shell Oil Company in this case since 1996. litigationsolutions@gmail.com

Ninth Circuit Rehearing May Effect Your Online Clients

Ninth Circuit rehearing may clear up several additional questions regarding third party solicited content on websites and where "comments" and "commentors" fit in that equation. Read the original ruling: PDF format.

Shell Gets US High Court Hearing on Cleanup Suits

Information Ready Litigation Solutions has provided litigation support in both electronic document management and trial presentation in SHELL OIL CO. V. UNITED STATES ET AL. since 1996. The Supreme Court has granted Shell's petition for writ of certiorari October 1, 2008. Information Ready Litigation Solutions also provided 8 weeks trial support at the table in this case. Case relates to CERCLA arranger liability issues and began as Brown & Bryant V. Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railway Et Al. This is a Superfund site (pesticide contamination) in central California.
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SCOTUS Blog

07-1601; 071607 Burlington Northern, Shell Oil Petitions For Writs Of Certiorari Granted: Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case

News: Court Order
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Links To Briefs: SCOTUS Blog

US Supreme Court: Good Or Bad For Business?

Supreme Court Inc. New York Times Magazine