Opinion ID: 2732042
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Heading: d. booth, inc.,

Text: Third‐Party Defendant‐Appellant. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Before: RAGGI, LYNCH, AND CHIN, Circuit Judges. Appeal from a judgment after trial before the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Peebles, M.J.), addressing claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq., for costs incurred in cleaning up coal tar contamination at manufactured gas plant sites in upstate New York. The district court held the corporate successor to plaintiffʹs former parent company liable for a portion of the costs on a veil‐piercing theory, and it held the current owner of one site liable for a portion of the costs as well. AFFIRMED IN PART, VACATED IN PART, AND REMANDED. ____________________________ DAVID L. ELKIND (Keisha A. Gary, Woody N. Peterson, Geoffrey M. Long, on the brief), Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff‐Counter‐Defendant‐Appellant‐ Cross‐Appellee New York State Electric and Gas Corporation. PAUL D. CLEMENT (Gregory W. Hicks, Jr., Erin E. Murphy, on the brief), Bancroft PLLC, Washington, DC, and John F. Stoviack, Saul ‐ 2 ‐ Ewing LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant‐ Counter‐Claimant‐Appellee‐Cross‐Appellant‐ Third‐Party Plaintiff‐Appellee FirstEnergy Corporation. BRYAN J. MAGGS (Donald S. Thompson, on the brief), Davidson & OʹMara, P.C., Elmira, NY, for Third‐Party Defendant‐Appellant I.D. Booth. ____________________________