STATE OF ALA., ETC. v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

No. 79-1283.

636 F.2d 1061 (1981)

STATE OF ALABAMA ex rel. Charles A. GRADDICK, as Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert S. Sanger, Gen. Counsel, Justin M. Schwamm, Sr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Michael R. McElroy, Atty., Tenn. Valley Auth., Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

William B. Hubbard, Deputy Atty. Gen., William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for State of Tenn., amicus curiae.

Edward E. Carnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE, FAY and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA" or "Authority") appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama requiring that its "headquarters" in Knoxville, Tennessee, be packed up and moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The district judge found this relocation necessary to bring TVA into compliance with section 8(a) of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, 16 U.S.C. § 831g(a), which reads in pertinent...

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