Union Oil Company of California v. Terrible Herbst, Inc., Union Oil Company of California, Dba/unocal, a California Corporation v. Terrible Herbst, Inc., a Nevada Corporation

331 F.3d 735 UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TERRIBLE HERBST, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Union Oil Company of California, dba/Unocal, a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Terrible Herbst, Inc., a Nevada Corporation, Defendant-Appellee. No. 01-16683. No. 01-17176. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 7, 2002. Filed June 9, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Alice A. Seebach, Seebach & Seebach, Los Angeles, California; Rodney M. Jean, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellant. J. Terry Schwartz and Craig A. Parton, Price, Postel & Parma LLP, Santa Barbara, California; Sean T. Higgins, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada; Roger L. Hunt, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-98-01579-RLH. Before B. FLETCHER, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, * and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge RICHARD S. ARNOLD; dissent by Judge RAWLINSON. OPINION RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal involves a contract dispute over who is responsible for cleaning up pollution beneath a gas station. Union Oil Company…