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· 6/3/1982

Rockford League of Women Voters v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Commonwealth Edison Company, Intervenor-Respondent

Citations

  • 679 F.2d 1218
  • 12 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 21018
  • 19 ERC (BNA) 1022
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 18744
  • 19 ERC 1022

How courts have described this case

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  • noting members who live near enough to a facility to be endangered should the facility be unsafe had standing to pursue a proceeding
  • “Government agencies have limited resources to perform their appointed tasks. The courts cannot tell them how to allocate those resources so as to get the most value out of them. That calls for a managerial judgment.”

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Judges: Bauer, Gibson, Posner

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