United States Sixth Circuit

In a suit brought by environmental organizations under the Clean Air Act alleging that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) shirked its duty to obtain appropriate pollution limitations at a power plant it operates, summary judgment for the TVA is reversed where plaintiffs' claims for civil penalties were timely insofar as they related to violations that occurred within five years of the date they filed their initial complaint.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2007
• Published 03/02/2007

Judges

• Before BATCHELDER and MOORE, Circuit Judges;  COHN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  George E. Hays, San Francisco, California, for Appellants.  Frank H. Lancaster, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  George E. Hays, San Francisco, California, Wade V. Davies, Ritchie, Dillard & Davies, Knoxville, Tennessee, Michael A. Costa, San Francisco, California, William J. Moore III, Law Office of William J. Moore III, Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellants.  Frank H. Lancaster, Harriet A. Cooper, Gregory R. Signer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   Andrew G. Frank, New York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, New York, Louis E. Tosi, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Toldeo, Ohio, Michael E. Born, Michael A. Snyder, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Columbus, Ohio, for Amici Curiae.