Legal Opinion
North Carolina Ex Rel. North Carolina Department of Administration v. Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 3, 2017No. 15-2225PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Agee joined. Judge King wrote a dissenting opinion.
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
The State of North Carolina commenced this action against Alcoa Power Generating, Inc., seeking a declaratory judgment that North Carolina owns a 45-mile segment of the riverbed of the Yadkin River in North Carolina that, over the past 100 years, Alcoa purportedly acquired by deed and developed, with the construction of four hydroelectric dams to supply electrical power to its aluminum smelting plant in Badin, North Carolina.1
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