Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 20, 1979No. 77-1761PublishedCited by 277 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal, from a District Court order directing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) to conduct further proceedings incident to a petition for rulemaking, raises issues intersecting three important federal statutory schemes: the Securities Acts, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It involves in particular a request made of the Commis sion, and denied by it after seven years of proceedings, to promulgate rules requiring comprehensive disclosures by corporations of their environmental and…
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