United States Fifth Circuit

The district court did not err when it applied the filed rate doctrine to preclude plaintiff from recovering damages it sustained when defendant allegedly manipulated its market position to create substantial price increases in the short-term energy market.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2005
• Published 06/17/2005

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mikal C. Watts (argued), Gregory Lamar Gowan, Watts Law Firm, Corpus Christi, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Thomas Glascock Slater, Jr. (argued), Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, Richard L. Adams, Hunton & Williams, Dallas, TX, Thomas Michael Hughes, Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, Darrell L. Barger, Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, Corpus Christi TX, for TXU Energy Inc., TXU Generation Services Co. LP, TXU Portfolio Management Co. LP and TXU Energy Solutions Management Co., Steven John Routh, Mary Anne Mason, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, G. Don Schauer, Schauer & Simank, Corpus Christi, TX, for American Elec. Power Inc., AEP Texas Cent. Co., AEP Texas North Co., American Elec. Power Serv., Corp. and AEP Texas Commercial Indus. Retail LP., Rufus W. Oliver, III, David Keith Isaak, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, for Reliant Energy Inc., Reliant Resources Inc., Reliant Energy Elec. Solutions LLC, Reliant Energy Retail Services, LLC and Reliant Energy Solutions Inc., Osborne J. Dykes, William Joseph Boyce, Lance R. Bremer, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, for Automated Power Exchange Inc., Judith R. Blakeway, Strasburger & Price, San Antonio, TX, for Electric Reliability Counsel of Texas., Daniel K. Hedges, John A. Irvine, Porter & Hedges, Houston, TX, for Texas Genco LPP, Centerpoint Energy Inc. and Centerpoint Energy Houston Elec. LLC., Lawrence A. Gaydos, Kathleen McIntosh Beasley, Haynes & Boone, Dallas, TX, for Texas Independent Energy, LP, Odessa-Ector Power Partners LLP and Guadalupe Power Partners LLP., Ernest L. Edwards, B. Richard Moore, Jr., Amy L. Baird, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for Tractebel Energy Marketing Inc., Robert S. Potosky (argued), Dallas, TX, for Cirro Energy Corp. and Utility Choice LP, amici curiae.