September 29, 2015
A North Carolina federal judge on Monday tossed a property suit brought by the state challenging an Alcoa Inc. unit's rights to the land on which it had built four hydropower dams along the Yadkin River, finding that Alcoa had proved it had title to the land.
April 23, 2015
A North Carolina federal judge reportedly issued what could be a key ruling Wednesday in a dispute in which aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. seeks to prove it owns the riverbed beneath four hydroelectric dams, saying the rivers weren't navigable when the United States was born.