Rocky Flats Suit Back to Square One in 22-Year Dispute
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Property owners seeking damages for radioactive contamination from Colorado’s Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have to start over, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating a $926 million judgment in their 22-year-old lawsuit.
The high court today, without comment, rejected the landowners’ challenge to a federal appeals court ruling, which threw out a jury’s verdict and sent the case back for a new trial.