Source: https://www.martenlaw.com/newsletter/20190715-virginia-moratorium-mining-uranium-ore
Timestamp: 2019-10-18 06:22:54
Document Index: 62611702

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1', '§ 2012', '§1', '§ 2092', '§ 2111', '§ 2014', '§ 2095', '§ 2021', '§45', '§ 2021', '§ 2092', '§2092', '§ 6901', '§ 6926', '§ 270', '§ 264']

Supreme Court Decides Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren: Rejects Preemption Challenge to Virginia’s Moratorium on Mining Uranium Ore on Nonfederal Land | Marten Law
e. Concurring Opinion
[1] Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. McAuliffe, et al., 147 F. Supp.3d 462, 466 (W.D. Va. 2015)(Warren I).
[2] Id. at 469 (quoting AEA of 1946, Pub. L. No. 585, ch. 724, 60 Stat. 755-56, §1(a))
[3] Brief of Petitioner, at *10, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 3546327 (July 19, 2018)(citing Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Dev. Commission, 461 U.S. 190, 206 (1983)).
[4] Id. (quoting Pacific Gas, 461 U.S. at 206).
[5] Warren I, 147 F.Supp.3d at 470 (citing 42 U.S.C. § 2012(c), (d); ch. 1073 §1(c), (d), 68 Stat. at 921.
[6] 42 U.S.C. § 2092, § 2111(a)).
[7] Warren I, 147 F.Supp3d at 470 (citing 42 U.S.C. § 2014(z)).
[8] Id. [emphasis added] (citing 42 U.S.C. § 2095).
[10] Id. at 471 [emphasis added] (citing 42 U.S.C. § 2021(k).
[12] Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., 848 F.3d 590, 593, Nuclear Reg. Rep. P. 20.779 (4th Cir. 2017)(Warren II).
[13] Id. at 593 (citing 1981 Va. Acts 1404).
[14] Id. (citing Va. Code Ann. §45.1-283).
[16] Warren I, at 476.
[19] Id. at 465-66.
[20] Id. at 471 [emphasis added] (citing 42 U.S.C. § 2021(k).
[21] Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504, 516, 112 S. Ct. 2608, 2617 (1992).
[23] Warren I, at 477.
[27] Warren II, 848 F.3d at 594.
[28] Id. at 597.
[30] Id. at 597 (quoting Pacific Gas, 461 U.S. at 216).
[31] Brief of Petitioner, at *26, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 3546327 (July 19, 2018).
[32] Brief of Petitioner, at *3, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 3546327 (July 19, 2018)(internal citations omitted); see also Warren II, 848 F.3d at 597.
[33] Brief of Respondent, at *18, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 4105540 (August 27, 2018)(italics emphasis included in original text).
[35] Oral Argument, at *8, *12, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, et al., No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 5792148 (November 5, 2018).
[36] Id. at *33, 39.
[37] Virginia Uranium, Inc., et al. v. Warren et al., No. 16-1275, slip op., 587 U.S. __, *4-5 (U.S. June 17, 2019)(quoting 42 U.S.C. § 2092)(“Warren III”); see also 42 U.S.C. §§2092, 2097.
[38] Warren III, No. 16-1275 at *5-6 (“Indeed, if anything subsection (k) might be described as a non-preemption clause.”).
[41] Id. at *14 [bold emphasis added] (quoting Hines v. Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52, 67 (1941)).
[42] Id. at *16.
[44] Id. at *17.
[45] Id. at *7 (Ginsburg, J., concurring).
[46] Id. at *13.
[47] Id. at *1 (Roberts, C.J., dissenting).
[48] Brief of States, at 21, No. 16-1275, 2018 WL 4348235, *21 (September 4, 2018)(citing 42 U.S.C. § 6901-6992(k); § 6926(b)(authorizing states to carry out a state program in lieu of the federal hazardous waste management program outlined under RCRA in order to issue and enforce permits for the storage, treatment, or disposal of hazardous waste).
[49] Id. at *22 (citing 40 C.F.R. § 270.32(b)(2); 40 C.F.R. § 264.111).
[50] Id. (citing Environmental Protection Agency Notice: State Authorization to Regulate the Hazardous Components of Radioactive mixed Wastes Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 51 Fed. Reg. 24, 504 (July 3, 1986)(“The EPA is today publishing a notice that in order to obtain and maintain authorization to administer and enforce a hazardous waste program pursuant to RCRA, States must have authority to regulate the hazardous components of “radioactive mixed waste” [… which …] are wastes that contain hazardous wastes subject to RCRA and radioactive wastes subject to the AEA”)(other internal citations omitted)).
[51] Id. (quoting United States v. Kentucky, 252 F.3d 816, 823 (6th Cir. 2001); also citing United States v. Manning, 527 F.3d 828, 833 (9th Cir. 2008)).
[52] Id. at 23-24.