United States Second Circuit

Chapter 190 of the Laws of 2000 of New York, concerning negligence at nuclear facilities and recovery of costs from rate payers, is an unconstitutional bill of attainder because the statute named Con Ed and was the product of a legislative intent to punish Con Ed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/21/2001
• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS, Circuit Judge, LARIMER, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Rice, Rice & Justice (Lawrence P. Justice, Bradley F. Rice, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Amicus Curiae Business Council of New York State, Inc., Michael F. McBride, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP (Bruce W. Neely, Martin G. Malsch, John W. Lawrence, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP, Edward H. Comer and Henri Bartholmot, Edison Electric Institute, Robert W. Bishop and Ellen C. GinsbergNuclear Energy Institute, on the brief) Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Edison Electric Institute and Nuclear Energy Institute.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Etlinger, Assistant Solicitor General of the State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General of the State of New York, Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Governor Pataki., Lawrence G. Malone, Public Service Commission of the State of New York (Diane T. Dean, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Commissioners of the Public Service Commission., Richard L. Brodsky, New York State Assembly, Counsel to the Majority (Rosemary Perez Jaquith, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants., Guy Miller Struve, Davis, Polk & Wardwell (James D. Liss, Florence A. Crisp, Zachary D. Stern, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Charles E. McTiernan, Jr., Richard J. Giglio, Scott A. Levinson, Roxana Barsalona, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.