United States Eleventh Circuit

The Tennessee Valley Authority has independent litigating authority to bring actions over the objection of the Attorney General, even though it is a federal agency.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2002
• Published 01/09/2002

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Robin Rogers,Frederick Ladd Hitchcock, Timothy H. Nichols, Carlos Clifford Smith, Mark Windhorn Smith, Strang, Fletcher, Carriger, Walker, Hodge & Smith, Chattanooga, TN, James E. Fox, Robert Chester Glinski, Harriet A. Cooper, Gregory R. Signer, Ronald E. Klipsch, James B. Hall, TVA, Office of General Counsel, Knoxville, TN, Makram B. Jaber, F. William Brownell, Henry V. Nickel, Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, Melvin Scott Schulze, Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, GA, for TVA., James C. Cope, Murfree, Cope, Hudson & Scarlett, Murfreesboro, TN, David Gualtieri, J. Steven Rogers, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Defense Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for EPA., Wiliam H. Lewis, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, for American Forest & Paper Ass'n, Amicus Curiae., David R. Wooley, Young, Sommer, Ward, Ritzenbert, Wooley, Baker & Moore, LLC, Albany, NY, for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Amicus Curiae., Margaret Campbell, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Atlanta, GA, Eugene W. Ward, General Counsel, Electric Power Bd., Nashville, TN, J. Maxwell Williams, Memphis, TN, Henry C. Tharpe, Jr., Kinney, Kemp, Pickell, Sponcler & Joiner, Dalton, GA, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, IV, Hunton & Williams, Daniel S. Reinhardt, Marshall B. Dukes, Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, GA, Karl R. Moor, Washington, DC, Peter Crane Anderson, Hunton & Williams, Charlotte, NC, for Intervenor, Georgia Power Co., Angelia Souder Blackwell, Atlanta, GA, for Whitman and EPA., Karl R. Moor, Southern Co., Washington, DC, Steven G. McKinney, Michael D. Freeman, Lyle David Larson, R. Bruce Barze, Jr., for Alabama Power Co. Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, for Alabama Power Co., J. Maxwell Williams, Memphis Light, Ga & Water Div., Memphis, TN, for Memphis Light, Gas & Water Div., Garry Stephen Rice, Duke Energy Corp., T. Thomas Cottingham, Hunton & Williams, Charlotte, NC, for Duke Energy Corp.