Constitutional Implications of CERCLA: Due Process Challenges to Response Costs and Retroactive Liability
Publication Title
Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law
Abstract
This Article addresses the question of whether CERCLA applies retroactively to response costs and to liability for releases of hazardous substances. In addition, it examines whether the retroactive application of CERCLA violates the due process clause of the fifth amendment.
Recommended Citation
William A. Montgomery Jr.,
Constitutional Implications of CERCLA: Due Process Challenges to Response Costs and Retroactive Liability,
31 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 279
(1987)
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_urbanlaw/vol31/iss1/13