Legal Opinion
Tri-Valley Cares v. U.S. Department of Energy
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 7, 2012No. 10-17636PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This case arises out of Plaintiffs-Appellants Tri-Valley CAREs’, Marylia Turner’s, and Janis Kate Turner’s (collectively, Tri-Valley CAREs) second challenge to the sufficiency of the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Environmental Assessment (EA) of a prospective “bio-safety level-3” (BSL-3) facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In an earlier round of litigation, we upheld all aspects of the DOE’s original EA, except for its failure to consider the impact of a possible terrorist attack. Following our remand, on September 30,…
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