The US Supreme Court on Monday asked the solicitor general to weigh in on whether state or federal law determines tort liability for activities stemming from a nuclear waste disposal operation in St. Louis.
A General Atomics Aeronatucial Systems Inc. unit is asking the justices to review a US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decision that federal nuclear dosage regulations don’t preempt state standards under the Price-Anderson Act.
The appeals court created a circuit split last year in siding with two sisters who sued accusing uranium mining and milling operator Cotter Corp., its former parent company Commonwealth Edison ...