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· 7/18/1996

Federal Case

Citations

  • 89 F.3d 1106
  • 26 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 21569
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 17609

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  • distinguishing cases holding accrued causes of action to be vested rights, calling them “contrary to current federal constitutional precedent that finds no vested right in a tort cause of action before final judgment
  • \[Congress] did not ... simply grant federal courts subject matter jurisdiction over all cases arising from nuclear accidents. Instead it created substantive federal law governing nuclear accidents in the choice of law provision of the Amendments Act ....\
  • “[Congress] did not . . . simply grant federal courts subject matter jurisdiction over all cases arising from nuclear accidents. Instead it created substantive federal law governing nuclear accidents in the choice of law provision of the Amendments Act . . . .”

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