U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Nuclear Reactor Meltdown Radiation Injury Case

Mealey's (March 30, 2021, 9:41 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 29 refused to hear a petition brought by U.S. Navy sailors who contended that they were entitled to redress of harm for radiation injuries from the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) in Japan. The sailors argued that their case relied on “traditional adjudicatory comity analysis for positing that their status as representatives of the United States requires a weight that went unacknowledged by the lower courts.”...