UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA v. LILIENTHAL

Civil Action No. 4427-48.

84 F.Supp. 640 (1949)

UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, CIO, et al. v. LILIENTHAL et al.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

May 24, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Scribner and Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Leon Novak, Schenectady, Allan R. Rosenberg, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

H. G. Morison, Assistant to Attorney General, George Morris Fay, United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., Edward H. Hickey, Special Assistant to Attorney General, Melvin Siegel, Special Assistant to Attorney General (Adrian S. Fisher, General Counsel, United States Atomic Energy Commission, and Bennett Boskey and William D. Denson, Attys., United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendant David E. Lilienthal, individually and as Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel, New York City, Robert G. Zeller, Washington, D. C., for defendant General Electric Co.


LETTS, District Judge.

Each motion to dismiss must be sustained for the following reasons:

The action of AEC of which the plaintiffs complain was authorized by the Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1801 et seq.; the court lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action in that the complaint seeks to control executive action committed by law to the discretion of the Atomic Energy Commission, and this court will not interfere with the exercise of...

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