Legal Opinion
Entergy Arkansas, Inc. v. Nebraska
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided April 16, 1999No. 4:98CV3411PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum and Order
KOPF, District Judge.
The defendants took eight years to say “no” to an application to construct a low-level radioactive waste disposal site. In the process, they required the plaintiffs to spend more than $74 million. A large portion of that huge sum went directly to Nebraska. There is good reason to think that the license denial was politically preordained.
In what may be the ultimate expression of “chutzpah,” the defendants want millions more from the plaintiffs to defend this lawsuit. They also seek to force some of the plaintiffs to participate in and fund an…
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Entergy Arkansas, Inc. v. State Of NebraskaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2000
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