( July 21, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that a six-year statute of limitations pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act commenced on an alloy and metal processing company’s claims for reimbursement of millions of dollars for response costs and damages associated with the release of hazardous substances at the site of a New York metal recycling operation and that spoliation sanctions for the company’s destruction of more than 23,000 pounds of documents was, in fact, warranted....