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COOK v. ROCKWELL INTERN. CORP.

Nos. 08-1224, 08-1226, 08-1239.

618 F.3d 1127 (2010)

Merilyn COOK; William Schierkolk, Jr.; Delores Schierkolk; Richard Bartlett; Lorren Babb; Gertrude Babb; Michael Dean Rice; Bank Western; Thomas L. Deimer; Rhonda J. Deimer; Stephen Sandoval; Peggy J. Sandoval; Sally Bartlett, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION and Dow Chemical Company, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, American Nuclear Insurers; Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc., Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 3, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Landau, P.C. , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC ( John K. Crisham and Philippa Scarlett , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC; David M. Bernick, P.C. , Douglas J. Kurtenbach, P.C. and Steven C. Seeger , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, with him on the briefs), Attorneys for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Merrill G. Davidoff , Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA ( Peter Nordberg and David F. Sorensen , Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Gary B. Blum and Steven W. Kelly , Silver & DeBoskey, P.C., Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Marjorie J. Berger , American Nuclear Insurers, Glastonbury, CT; Simon A. Steel , Harkins Cunningham LLP, Washington, DC; and John G. Harkins, Jr. , Harkins Cunningham LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief for American Nuclear Insurers, Amicus Curiae.

Ellen C. Ginsberg, Esq , Michael A. Bauser, Esq. , Anne W. Cottingham, Esq. , and Jerry Bonanno, Esq. , Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc.; Donald E. Jose, Esq. , Jose & Associates, Malvern, PA; and Charles F. Rysavy, Esq. , K & L Gates LLP, Newark, NJ, on the brief for Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Before MURPHY, ANDERSON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The owners of property near the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant ("Rocky Flats") filed a class action against the facility's operators under the Price-Anderson Act ("PAA"), alleging trespass and nuisance claims arising from the release of plutonium particles onto their properties. The district court conducted a lengthy trial, resulting in a jury verdict in favor of...

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