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183242P.pdf   05/06/2020  County of San Mateo, CA  v.  Peabody Energy Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3242
                          and No:  19-1767
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Bankruptcy. The environmental law carve-out in the discharge 
   from governmental claims did not except plaintiffs' common law claims; nor 
   were their claims excepted from discharge by a provision exempting from 
   discharge a governmental claims brought "under ... any applicable police 
   or regulatory law;" the claim that because the plaintiffs' representative 
   public-nuisance claim entitles them only to the equitable relief of 
   abatement it is not dischargeable in bankruptcy was properly rejected; all 
   the municipalities' claims concern Peabody's pre-bankruptcy conduct and 
   are barred.