VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORP.
v.
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 28, 1977.
Decided April 3, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner in No. 76-419. With him on the briefs were G. Marshall Moriarty, William L. Patton, and R. K. Gad III. Charles A. Horsky argued the cause for petitioner in No. 76-528. With him on the briefs was Harold F. Reis.
Deputy Solicitor General Wallace argued the cause for the federal respondents in support of petitioners in both cases pursuant to this Court's Rule 21 (4). On the briefs were Solicitor General McCree, Acting Assistant Attorney General Liotta, Harriet S. Shapiro, Edmund B. Clark, John J. Zimmerman, Peter L. Strauss, and Stephen F. Eilperin. Henry V. Nickel and George C. Freeman, Jr., filed a brief for respondents Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. et al. in support of petitioner in No. 76-419 pursuant to Rule 21 (4).
Richard E. Ayres argued the cause and filed briefs for respondents in No. 76-419. Myron M. Cherry argued the cause for the nonfederal respondents in No. 76-528. With him on the brief was Peter A. Flynn.†
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.
In 1946, Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act, which as we have noted elsewhere was not only "a new, basic and comprehensive regulation of procedures in many agencies," Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath,339 U.S. 33 (1950), but was also a legislative enactment which settled "long-continued and hard-fought contentions...
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