Municipal Utilities Bd. v. Alabama Power Co.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs, thirty municipal and public corporations and their boards (“the Cities”), appeal the district court’s order dismissing with prejudice their antitrust complaint against twenty-two rural electric cooperatives (“the Cooperatives”), the Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives (“AREA”) and Alabama Power Company (“APC”).

I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

A. Background Facts

The Cities, the Cooperatives, and APC all own and operate electric distribution facilities in the State of Alabama. In 1979, the Alabama Legislature established the Joint Interim Committee…