Legal Opinion
Barfield v. Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided March 31, 2014No. Case No. 2:11-cv-04321-NKLPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER NANETTE K. LAUGHREY, District Judge.
This class action is brought on behalf of several thousand Missouri landowners for claims arising out of Defendants’ use of electric transmission line easements for commercial telecommunications instead of the generation and sale of electricity.
It is undisputed that Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative and KAMO Electric Cooperative (Electric Cooperative Defendants) created Sho-Me Technologies and K-Powernet, respectively, to operate commercial telecommunication companies. The Electric Cooperative Defendants did this because Missouri law does not permit…
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