Justices Seek Administration’s Views in Nuclear Liability Case

The US Supreme Court on Monday asked the solicitor general to weigh in on whether state or federal law determines tort liability for activities stemming from a nuclear waste disposal operation in St. Louis.

A General Atomics Aeronatucial Systems Inc. unit is asking the justices to review a US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decision that federal nuclear dosage regulations don’t preempt state standards under the Price-Anderson Act.

The appeals court created a circuit split last year in siding with two sisters who sued accusing uranium mining and milling operator Cotter Corp., its former parent company Commonwealth Edison ...