- December 30, 2020Dakota Energy has filed a lawsuit concerning its potential exit from a wholesale power supplier, East River Electric. Dakota Energy’s concern is that East River’s bylaws require,…
- August 20, 2020In a lawsuit brought against a nonprofit, member-owned electric cooperative corporation, the plaintiff-members (“Plaintiffs”) alleged that Southwest Mississippi Electric Cooperative…
- January 30, 2020On October 30, 2019, the Georgia Court of Appeals vacated, reversed, and remanded the denial of a cooperative bank's summary judgment motion on fiduciary duty and…
- July 29, 2018Class-Action Lawsuit Focuses on Cooperative Board Compensation A South Carolina electric cooperative, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc., was recently named in a…
- August 3, 2017The U.S. House of Representatives recently advanced two electric cooperative priorities, which are now headed to the Senate for full…
- January 11, 2017In 2011, Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative (EMEC) entered into a contract with First Wind Holdings, LLC and four of its…
- September 2, 2016In October 2015, a New Mexico jury found Tri-State Generation and Transmission partly responsible for the largest wildfire in the…
- July 17, 2016In June 2011, a devastating wildfire swept through New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest, blackening over 156,000 acres, destroying 63…
- November 11, 2015It took over ten years, but the dispute over coal transportation costs between Berkshire Hathaway-owned BNSF Railway and the regional…
- August 19, 2015Since 2009, at least 14 cases have been filed against electric cooperatives over patronage capital (or capital credits) in eight…
- November 26, 2013USDA Magazine Article Discusses Management of Capital Credits and Patronage Dividends The USDA publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Rural Cooperatives, which…
- September 16, 2013Cooperative’s Consolidation and Liquidation of Subsidiaries [To view this post in the typical Cooperative Tax Brief format, click here.] Like…
- July 6, 2013A federal appellate court recently addressed a distribution cooperative’s lawsuit against a G&T cooperative with which it had a power…
- October 14, 2012C&A attorneys have been closely following lawsuits against cooperatives' capital credit management. We recently developed an updated summary of the…
- September 29, 2012A 2008 case and its follow-up in 2011 addressed several issues arising from common provisions in power purchase agreements. These…
- August 11, 2012In another lawsuit concerning cooperatives' capital credit practices, a North Carolina trial court ruled in favor of a cooperative that…
- August 7, 2012Earlier this past July, the Texas Court of Appeals ruled on important aspects of the cooperative lawsuit concerning Denton County…
- November 4, 2011The latest Cooperative Taxation Brief discusses the Internal Revenue Service's recent private letter ruling that confirms its long-held stance on…
- September 19, 2011Another class action proceeding has been filed against Carroll Electric Service Corporation, this time before the Arkansas Public Service Commission. …
- February 23, 2011A new class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of deceased members of South River Electric Membership Corporation, based in…
- February 17, 2011In a previous post, we discussed litigation against cooperatives involving their capital credit practices. That post contains a link to…
