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