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· 6/6/1983

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Citations

  • 462 U.S. 87
  • 103 S. Ct. 2246
  • 76 L. Ed. 2d 437
  • 1983 U.S. LEXIS 48
  • 13 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20544
  • 52 P.U.R.4th 501
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 4678
  • 19 ERC (BNA) 1057

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that when examining decisions made under conditions of scientific uncertainty \a reviewing court must generally be at its most deferential\
  • recognizing that a reviewing court should be at its most deferential in reviewing an agency’s scientific conclusions in an area within the agency’s expertise
  • holding that a reviewing court must be \at its most deferential” when the agency is \making predictions, within its area of special expertise, at the frontiers of science”
  • holding that, “at the frontiers of science, ... a reviewing court must generally be at its most deferential”
  • holding that “[w]hen examining ... [a] scientific determination ... a reviewing court must generally be at its most deferential”
  • holding that “[w]hen examining ... [a] scientific determination ... a reviewing court must generally be at its most deferential”

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Judges: O'Connor, Powell

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