GP Vincent II v. Mayhew Center, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GP VINCENT II, Case No. 20-cv-00745-VC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO

v. DISMISS

MAYHEW CENTER, LLC, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 43, 50 Defendants.

Mayhew Center owned a property that was environmentally contaminated. In 2007, a neighboring property owner, Walnut Creek Manor, sued Mayhew Center in the Northern District of California under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), claiming that the contamination from Mayhew Center’s property had spread to Walnut Creek Manor’s property. Following a jury verdict in favor of Walnut Creek Manor, the court entered a judgment requiring Mayhew Center to clean up Walnut Creek Manor’s property as well as its own property. In 2010—after entry of judgment in the Walnut Creek Manor case—Mayhew Center brought a separate CERCLA action in the Northern District against several defendants, seeking to recover the costs of the cleanup. Among the defendants was Norma Beard, a former owner of the Mayhew Center property. Beard and her husband had operated a business called Etch-Tek on the…