United States Eleventh Circuit

The Department of Energy is not authorized by law to spend Nuclear Waste Fund monies on settlement agreements aimed at compensating utilities for their on-site storage costs as a result of the Department's massive breach of contract.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2002
• Published 09/24/2002

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Cynamon,Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Jay E. Silberg, Shaw Pittman, Washington, DC, David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, M. Stanford Blanton, Yvonne Norris Beshany, Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, for Petitioners., Brad Fagg, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harold D. Lester, Jr., David M. Cohen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., William L. Olsen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.