Legal Opinion
Entergy Arkansas, Inc. v. Nebraska
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided September 15, 1999No. 4:98CV3411PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum and Order
KOPF, District Judge.
The State of Nebraska, various state agencies, and individual state employees sued in their official and individual capacities have filed motions to dismiss this case. In this opinion, I deal only with the motion to dismiss directed at the suit brought by the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. That motion primarily raises the Eleventh Amendment as a reason to dismiss. For the reasons set forth below, I deny the motion to dismiss.
I. HISTORY
I presume a basic understanding of this case and the extraordinary litigation that preceded…
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Entergy Arkansas, Inc. v. State Of NebraskaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2000
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