Legal Opinion
Linus C. Pauling v. Robert S. McNamara
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 18, 1964No. 17797PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURGER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents, for the second time in less than three years, an effort to enlist judicial power to stop all nuclear testing, including underground tests.
The complaint1 filed by appellants sought a declaratory judgment to restrain and enjoin the Secretary of Defense and the members of the Atomic Energy Commission from detonating any nuclear weapons that produce radiation or radioactive atomic nuclei or alternatively to issue such injunction effective only when, and if, a similar injunction is issued by the Supreme Court of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…
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3Cited by32 opinions
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