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Michelle McMunn, Personal Representative of the Estate of Eva Myers, et al. v. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 15-3506 · judgment August 23, 2017


Certiorari denied · February 20, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether limits on radioactive emissions measured at the point of discharge, imposed by the AEC as a license condition pursuant to its regulatory authority, give rise to an enforceable federal standard of care for purposes of the duty element of a public liability action under the Price-Anderson Act.

  2. Whether a purported state law causation standard which imposes an insurmountable burden to establish liability for injury from operation of a nuclear materials plant is inconsistent with the Price-Anderson Act.

  3. Whether a Court of Appeals may apply de novo review to overrule a District Court’s decision to allow expert testimony.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
David Bennet Rodes
Goldberg, Persky & White, P.C.

For respondent
Stephen Blake Kinnaird
Paul Hastings LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 20 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 17 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2018.
  3. Jan 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jan 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Atlantic Richfield Company to respond filed.
  5. Dec 20 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 25, 2018)