Guam v. United States

Guam v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 26, 2021 Decided May 24, 2021
Full case name	Territory of Guam v. United States
Docket no.	20-382
Citations	593 U.S. ___ (more) 141 S. Ct. 1608 209 L. Ed. 2d 691
Case history
Prior	Motion to dismiss denied, 341 F. Supp. 3d 74 (D.D.C. 2018) Reversed and remanded, 950 F.3d 104 (D.C. Cir. 2020) Cert. granted, 141 S. Ct. 976 (2021)
Subsequent	Remanded for further proceedings, 852 F. App'x 14 (D.C. Cir. 2021)
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinion
Majority	Thomas, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

Guam v. United States, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with a dispute on fiscal responsibility for environmental and hazardous cleanup of the Ordot Dump created by the United States Navy on the island of Guam in the 1940s, which Guam then ran after becoming a territory in 1950 until the landfill's closure in 2011. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (aka Superfund), Guam had filed its lawsuit to recover a portion of cleanup costs for the landfill from the United States government in a timely manner, allowing their case to proceed.