Algernon Blair Industrial Contractors, Inc. v. Tennessee Valley Authority

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HOBBS, District Judge.

This cause is now before the Court on defendant’s motion, filed October 4,1982, to strike plaintiff’s demand for a jury trial. Briefs have been filed on behalf of both parties.

The question presented by defendant’s motion is whether a plaintiff in an action brought against TVA under § 10(a)(2) 1 of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 (the Act) is entitled to trial by jury. That section provides that a contractor’s appeal from a decision by a TVA contracting officer under § 6 of the Act can either be in the form of an appeal to an agency board or…