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9/11 families appeal to judge on victims list

One World Trade Center rises above the lower

Photo credit: AP | One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline and the National September 11 Memorial, lower right, in New York City. The behemoth that will replace the Twin Towers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks became New York City's tallest skyscraper April 30, when workers erected steel columns that raised it to a height of a little more than 1,250 feet. (April 17, 2012)

Seventeen families of 9/11 victims have asked a judge to reverse a lower court decision rejecting their request for a list of 2,749 names and addresses of 9/11 families.

They filed the appeal in the hopes of using the list to poll the victims' families about whether they support the city's plan to place unidentified remains under the 9/11 museum at Ground Zero.

In the papers, the families...

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