MORRISTOWN, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) - GPU, Inc. (GPU:NYSE) announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the District Court's determination that the remaining plaintiffs in the litigation involving the 1979 nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island-Unit 2 generating plant will be allowed to advance causation theories based only on the admissible evidence of record existing at the close of discovery.

      The District Court had dismissed 10 test cases on the grounds that the plaintiffs' proposed evidence as scientifically unreliable. The Court of Appeals said that after the District Court did so, there was insufficient evidence remaining even to submit the case to a jury, requiring that judgment be entered for the defendants. The Court of Appeals said the District Court was therefore correct in precluding the remaining 2,100 non-test plaintiffs from the further discovery of "new theories, new studies, new experts, medical causation theories and opinion, and dose information."

      A. H. Wilcox, attorney for the defendants, said: "The Court of Appeals decision confirms our conviction that District Court Judge Rambo's decision was correct. Now, more than two decades after the accident, is not the time to try to find support for allegations that the accident caused any injury to the public."

      Contact: GPU, Inc., Morristown Ned Raynolds, 973/401-8294