United States Ninth Circuit

Claims challenging defendants' constructing and interconnecting with an electricity intertie were properly dismissed as a challenge to a federal agency finding, to be heard only by Court of Appeals; district court was not obligated to transfer rather than dismiss claims, where action would have been untimely had it been filed in appropriate court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2002
• Decided 04/16/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

• DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:, Before THOMPSON, W. FLETCHER, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis L. Viglione,Montague, Cochrane & Viglione, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce G. Forrest, Department of Justice, John A. Sturgeon, White & Case LLP, Los Angeles, CA, and David S. Aman, Tonkon Torp LLP, Portland, OR, for the defendants-appellees.