United States Fourth Circuit

The Flood Control Act authorizes defendants to recover revenue shortages incurred during a prior rate period and affords them considerable discretion in structuring rate schedules for the sale of hydroelectric power in order to do so.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2003
• Published 07/29/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and HUDSON, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: A. Hewitt Rose, III, Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellants.  Gillian Flory, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF: Kathleen T. Spear, Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone, P.C., Washington, D.C.;  Elizabeth H. Warner, South Carolina Public Service Authority, Moncks Corner, South Carolina, for Appellants.   Robert D. McCallum, Assistant Attorney General, Robert Greenspan, Felix Baxter, C. Max Vassanelli, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.  Donald W. Tyler, Tyler, Cassell, Jackson, Peace & Silver, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Amicus Curiae.