Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

Alcoa, Inc. v. Bonneville Power Administration

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided October 16, 2012No. 10-70211, 10-70707, 10-70743, 10-70782, 10-70813, 10-70843Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partBea, Circuit Judge

I agree with the panel’s judgment denying the petitions as to the First Period of the contract between the Bonneville Power Authority (“BPA”) and the Aluminum Company of America (“Alcoa”), as extended by the parties. I dissent, however, from the panel’s judgment dismissing the petitions seeking to invalidate the contract’s Second Period because I find Petitioners have standing to press their claims, and that their claims are valid, as far as they are based on BPA’s statutory duty to charge Alcoa the IP rate. See Maj. Op. Part IV. We should grant the petition as to the Second Period of BPA’s…

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