United States v. Bestfoods

United States v. Bestfoods
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 24, 1998 Decided June 8, 1998
Full case name	United States v. Bestfoods, et al.
Citations	524 U.S. 51 (more) 118 S. Ct. 1876; 141 L. Ed. 2d 43; 1998 U.S. LEXIS 3733
Case history
Prior	Reversed in part, 113 F.3d 572 (6th Cir. 1997). Certiorari granted.
Holding
The liability of a parent corporation under CERCLA is to be determined by its control over a subsidiary's facility.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Souter, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
CERCLA

United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51 (1998), is a United States corporate law and environmental law case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the indirect liability of a parent corporation under CERCLA is to be determined by its control over a subsidiary's facility, rather than the relationship between the corporation and subsidiary.