Legal Opinion
Acuna v. Brown & Root Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 11, 2000No. 98-51073, 98-51133PublishedCited by 972 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
The above-captioned cases were consolidated on appeal. They present the common issue of whether jurisdiction in the federal courts is appropriate under the Price Anderson Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2210(n)(2), where plaintiffs have alleged tortious injury arising from uranium mining activity. Plaintiffs-appellants also appeal the imposition of certain pre-discovery orders and argue, in the alternative, that they satisfied any burdens placed upon them and that their cases should not have been dismissed. As discussed below, we find that jurisdiction was proper under 42 U.S.C. §…
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