Legal Opinion

Public Citizen v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided July 24, 2009No. 07-71868, 07-72555PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge THOMAS.

HALL, Senior Circuit Judge:

Petitioners Public Citizen, Inc., San Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace, the State of New York,1 and amicus State of California (“Petitioners”) challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (“NRC” or “Commission”) modification of the Design Basis Threat (“DBT”) rule and partial denial of the Committee to Bridge the Gap’s (“CBG”) petition for rulemaking. Petitioners claim the Commission acted arbitrarily *918and capriciously and contrary to law by refusing to include the threat of air attacks in the final revised DBT…

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