Legal Opinion
Hardin v. Kentucky Utilities Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 16, 1968No. 40PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
The question for decision in these cases is whether Congress has prohibited the Tennessee Valley Authority from competing in the sale of electricity with respondent, the Kentucky Utilities Company, in two small villages in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and in a narrow corridor between the two villages and the Tennessee-Kentucky state boundary 16 miles away. By § 15d of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as added by the 1959 amendments to that Act, Congress barred the TVA from expanding its sales outside “the area for which the Corporation [TVA] or its distributors were the pri*3mary…
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