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# An ​‘Apex’ that May Be a Turning Point: Ruling in Oil Company Case Holds Debtor Responsible for Clean-up Obligations

  September 28, 2009

Connecticut Law Tribune

 

 

 

 

 

 

The article discussed chapter 11 cases that involved environmental liability in Connecticut and analyzed the recent Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals case *United States v. Apex Oil Co.*

 

 

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