United States Seventh Circuit

In constitutional challenges to statutes regulating public utilities and public utility holding companies in Wisconsin, 1) an in-state incorporation provision violates the Commerce Clause, 2) a provision prohibiting transfer of licenses, permits, and franchises to foreign corporations was not shown to be unconstitutional as applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2003
• Published 05/29/2003

Judges

• FLAUM, Chief Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and COFFEY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas M. Pyper (argued), Whyte, Hirschboeck & Dudek, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Kendall W. Harrison, LaFollette, Godfrey & Kahn, Madison, WI, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Doyle, Edwin J. Hughes (argued), Office of U.S. Attorney, Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.