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COMMON CAUSE v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Nos. 81-1975, 81-2002 and 81-2147.

674 F.2d 921 (1982)

COMMON CAUSE, et al. v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Appellants. COMMON CAUSE and David Cohen v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and John F. Ahearne, Chairman, Appellants. COMMON CAUSE, et al. v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason D. Kogan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, Washington, D. C., Kenneth M. Raisler and Royce C. Lamberth, Asst. U. S. Attys., James Fitzgerald, Acting Sol., Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Harvey Shulman and C. Sebastian Aloot, Attys., Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Donald J. Simon, with whom Ellen G. Block, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before WRIGHT, WILKEY and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

The Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552b (1976), requires that meetings of multi-member federal agencies shall be open to the public, with the exception of discussions in ten narrowly defined areas.1 In these cases we must decide an important unresolved issue: whether any of the statutory exemptions from the Sunshine...

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