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CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP, INC. v. UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

No. C-C-73-139.

431 F.Supp. 203 (1977)

CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

March 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman B. Smith, Smith, Patterson, Follin & Curtis, Greensboro, N. C., George S. Daly, Jr., Casey & Daly, Charlotte, N. C., William B. Schultz and Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Douglas M. Martin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charlotte, N. C., Joseph DiStefano, Atomic Energy Commission, Peter L. Strauss, Gen. Counsel, and Stephen F. Eilperin, Asst. Gen. Counsel, James Fitzgerald and E. Leo Slagge, Attys., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, John T. Boese, U. S. Dept. of Justice, for defendant U. S. Atomic Energy Commission; Joseph B. Knotts, Jr. and J. Michael McGarry, III, Conner & Knotts, Washington, D. C., Clarence W. Walker, Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman, and William L. Porter, Duke Power Co., Charlotte, N. C., for defendant Duke Power Co.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

McMILLAN, District Judge.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

Plaintiffs brought this action to obtain a declaration of the unconstitutionality of those portions of the Price-Anderson Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2210(c) and § 2210(e), which place a limitation of $560,000,000 on the maximum amount of liability of a power company or a contractor for damages resulting from a nuclear accident involving...

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