Kwon

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CASA NIDO PARTNERSHIP, Case No. 20-cv-07923-EMC

Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S v. MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE A

SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST

JAE KWON, et al., Defendants. Docket No. 209

12 I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND A. Factual Background Casa Nido is a partnership that has owned a 5,200 square foot parcel located at 12210 San Pablo Avenue, Richmond, California since 1976 (the “Property”). Casa Nido leased the Property to dry-cleaning operations from 1960 to 2015. From around 1960 to 1992, Catherine O’Hanks operated a commercial dry-cleaning facility on the Property. Docket No. 211-1 at ¶ 4 (Brody Decl.). Then, following a lease assignment, from 1992 to 2007 Jae Kwon took over the facility. Id. at ¶ 5. At some point throughout that time, the dry-cleaning operations generated halogenated solvent wastes, including tetrachloroethene (“PCE”) and trichloroethene (TCE). Id. at ¶ 3. …