United States Tenth Circuit

The state action doctrine protects all of a public utility's regulated electricity sales from federal antitrust claims, and the failure of a utility to file a dispositive motion before trial does not waive the defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2001
• Published 04/03/2001

Judges

• Paul KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges, and MURGUIA , District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara A. Hindin (Edward H. Comer, on the brief), Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul D. Clement (Kevin R. Sullivan, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz and Jeffrey S. Spigel, King & Spalding, Washington, DC, and James A. Kirk, James M. Chaney, Allen Campbell, Kirk & Chaney, Oklahoma City, OK, on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant., Deborah H. Bornstein (John T. Cusack, with her on the briefs, Patrick J. Kelleher, Steven S. Shonder, Myriam Pierre Warren, Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL and Burck Bailey, Warren F. Bickford, IV, Dino E. Viera, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Oklahoma City, OK, on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.