Lamb v. Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding health risk must be proved in part because liability precluded on other grounds if contamination was below federally mandated safety levels
• noting in dicta that the public function exception would apply to an enriched uranium plant that was allegedly contaminating the plaintiffs’ soil, air, and water
• applying the public duty exception to a nuclear facility because under Kentucky law the public duty exception includes entities engaged in activities of public necessity even when there is no legal duty to perform them
• applying the public duty exception to a nuclear facility because under Kentucky law the public duty exception includes entities engaged in activities of public necessity even when there is no legal duty to perform them
• “The Supreme Court has long held that the Supremacy Clause forbids state regulation of the federal government’s activities.” (citing McCullough, 17 U.S. at 426)
• summarily noting in factual background that Ohio law applied under § 2014(hh)

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