Scientists' Institute for Public Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Commission

by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

481 F.2d 1079

SCIENTISTS' INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION, INC., APPELLANT

v.

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ET AL.

No. 72-1331

United States Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia Circuit.

June 12, 1973, Decided

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

J. G. Speth, with whom Ronald J. Wilson was on the brief, for Appellant.

Edmund B. Clark, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell and Martin R. Hoffman, General Counsel, Atomic Energy Commission, Jerome Nelson, Solicitor, Atomic Energy Commission, and Thomas L. McKevitt and Peter R. Steenland, Attorneys, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for Appellees.

John D. Hoffman filed a brief on behalf of Sierra Club and Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. as Amici Curiae urging reversal.

Bazelon, Chief Judge, and Wright and Wilkey, Circuit Judges.