East Tennessee Research Corp. v. Tennessee Valley Authority

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SIRICA, District Judge.

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1970), as amended, (Supp. IV, 1974). The plaintiffs are an individual person and two citizen groups, all from Tennessee. The defendants are the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”), a federal government corporation based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and R. Lynn Seeber, the corporation’s general manager, who lives and works in Tennessee also.

The defendants have moved for dismissal of this suit on two grounds: (1) that they are not amenable to service of process by the U.S.…