Feb. 28, 2012, Don Kreis: Vermont Yankee and the Rule of Law

Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin

It is time for Vermonters of goodwill, from Gov. Shumlin to the SAGE Alliance, to inure themselves to the reality that Vermont Yankee will not be shutting down on March 21, 2012.
The latest flurry of federal court pleadings from Vermont Yankee’s owners at Entergy suggest that, in a sense, the whole notion of civil society has become somewhat frayed in the wake of January’s decision by U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha that federal law precludes the Vermont Legislature from ordering the nuclear plant closed on March 21. Attorney General Sorrell has appealed Judge Murtha’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and, thus, by all rights the action should now shift to that New York City-based court.

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