Legal Opinion
In re Three Mile Island Litigation
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 10, 1980No. Civ. A. No. 79-0432PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
RAMBO, District Judge.
The events which led to this litigation began on March 28, 1979, with the nuclear incident at reactor number two of the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear facility located on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is undisputed that during the course of the accident some radioactive materials escaped into the atmosphere, and that, in the ensuing days, thousands of residents left the area surrounding TMI out of concern for their safety.
On April 9, 1979, the first lawsuit was filed in this court. Numerous suits followed. Judge R. Dixon…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Philip B. Lindy T/a Fountain View Apts., a Pennsylvania Limited Partnership v. James Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by31 opinions
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