Legal Opinion
Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. v. Metropolitan Knox Solid Waste Authority, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1992No. 91-6129PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendants, the City of Knoxville, and Knox County, Tennessee, appeal an interlocutory order, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), denying their motion to dismiss this diversity contract action on grounds that they were not liable for the contractual obligations of the separately incorporated Waste Authority.
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This lawsuit arises out of the proposed construction of a solid waste incinerator (the “Facility”) in Knox County, Tennessee. For this purpose, the City of Knoxville and the county jointly created the Metropolitan Knox Solid Waste Authority (“Waste Authority”), a…
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