KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

No. 16491.

375 F.2d 403 (1966)

KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, Powell Valley Electric Co-operative, Edward J. Hardin, individually, and as Mayor of Tazewell, Tennessee, and James B. DeBusk, individually, and as Mayor of New Tazewell, Tennessee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

Certiorari Granted March 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm Y. Marshall and James S. Welch, Louisville, Ky. (Ogden, Robertson & Marshall, Louisville, Ky., John A. Rowntree, Fowler, Rowntree & Fowler, Knoxville, Tenn., James D. Estep, Jr., Tazewell, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Paul A. Sweeney for United States Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C.

Philip P. Ardery, Louisville, Ky., for Tazewell and New Tazewell, Tenn.

Charles J. McCarthy, Knoxville, Tenn., (Clyde Y. Cridlin, Jonesville, Va., on the brief for Powell Valley Electric Cooperative; Robert H. Marquis, Thomas A. Pedersen, Lewis E. Wallace, Knoxville, Tenn., of counsel), for Tennessee Valley Authority and Powell Valley Electric Cooperative.

William R. Stanifer, Tazewell, Tenn., Philip P. Ardery, Brown, Ardery, Todd & Dudley, Louisville, Ky., for defendants-appellees, Tazewell and New Tazewell.

S. Eason Balch, Jesse S. Vogtle, Martin, Blach, Bingham & Hawthorne, Birmingham, Ala., for Alabama Power Company, Amicus Curiae.

Herbert B. Cohn, American Electric Power Service Corporation, New York City, for Appalachian Power, Amicus Curiae.

W. Reid Thompson, Charles F. Rouse, Raleigh, N. C., for Carolina Power & Light Co., Amicus Curiae.

Carl Horn, Jr., William I. Ward, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., for Duke Power Co., Amicus Curiae.

William H. Schroder, Harold C. McKenzie, Jr., Troutman, Sams, Schroder & Lockerman, Atlanta, Ga., for Georgia Power Co., Amicus Curiae.

Herbert B. Cohn, New York City, for Kingsport Power Co., Amicus Curiae.

James S. Eaton, Eaton A. Lang, Jr., Eaton, Cottrell, Galloway & Lang, Gulfport, Miss., for Mississippi Power Co., Amicus Curiae.

Sherwood W. Wise, Richard B. Wilson, Jr., Wise, Smith & Carter, Jackson, Miss., for Mississippi Power & Light Co., Amicus Curiae.

John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul A. Sweeney, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Ernest W. Rivers, U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky. (Curtis H. Bell, Field Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., of counsel) for the United States, Amicus Curiae.

Before O'SULLIVAN and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


Certiorari Granted March 27, 1967. See 87 S.Ct. 1284.

O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Division, dismissing a complaint for injunctive relief. Plaintiff-appellant, Kentucky Utilities Company, a Kentucky Corporation (hereafter KU) had sought to have Tennessee Valley Authority (hereafter TVA), Powell Valley Electric Cooperative, a TVA distributor ...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases