COMMITTEE FOR NUCLEAR RESPONSIBILITY, INC. v. SEABORG

No. 71-1854.

463 F.2d 788 (1971)

The COMMITTEE FOR NUCLEAR RESPONSIBILITY, INC., et al. v. Glenn T. SEABORG et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1971.

As Amended November 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Department of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. Shiro Kashiwa and Messrs. Thomas L. McKevitt and Peter R. Steenland, Attys., Department of Justice, were on the pleadings, for appellants.

Mr. David Sive, New York City, a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. Harold Green, New York City, was on the pleadings, for appellees.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and LEVENTHAL and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.


Argued in Misc. No. 3714 October 27, 1971.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal presents a new chapter in the litigation concerning the proposed underground nuclear test, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island, Alaska. In Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v. Seaborg, 149 U.S.App.D. C. ___, 463 F.2d 783, No. 71-1732, 1971, we held that plaintiffs—conservation groups—had presented a cognizable claim, which the courts...

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