Appeals Judges Won’t Bother With Oral Arguments in Nev. Plutonium Case

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A federal appeals court decided last week it does not need to hear oral arguments about whether the U.S. governmentviolated environmental law when it sent half a metric ton of weapon-usable plutonium to the Nevada in 2018.In what could be a sign that judges will rule swiftly on Nevada’s appeal of a lower court’s decision last year not to preventthe shipment, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said it will consider the case Aug. 9 in San Francisco based onbriefs already filed by attorneys representing the state and federal governments.