The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a man injured in a boating accident, finding that the Knoxville-based Tennessee Valley Authority isn’t immune from lawsuits, as the federal government had claimed.
The April 29 judicial opinion came in a case called Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority. Gary Thacker and his wife filed suit against the authority for negligence after he and another man, Anthony Szozda, were navigating a boat on the Tennessee River and were struck while crews tried to raise a partially submerged power line. Szozda was killed.
