Opinion ID: 4563582
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Heading: The NJDEP Settlement with Carter Day

Text: In 1990, Carter Day filed another adversary proceeding in the SDNY Bankruptcy Court seeking a determination that the NJDEP claim had been discharged in bankruptcy. It did not name the USEPA as a defendant. The following year the Bankruptcy Court approved a settlement between Carter Day 10 and the NJDEP that discharged “all claim[s] of [the] NJDEP against Carter Day with respect to the [Site]” (the “NJDEP Settlement”). J.A. 1339. The parties agreed that “the prior disallowance of the NJDEP’s proof of claim in [Carter Day]’s Chapter 11 case had res judicata effect and barred the NJDEP’s claims.” Id. The NJDEP did not receive any additional money under the Settlement, nor was the USEPA party to it.