United States Ninth Circuit

A state government may not force utilities to waive security and default mitigation procedures of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-approved rate schedules under the Federal Power Act or commandeer the wholesale suppliers' collateral.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/16/2001
• Decided 09/20/2001
• Published 09/21/2001

Judges

• Before:  HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr.,KOZINSKI, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Geoffrey Bestor (argued), Barry R. Ostrager, Seth A. Ribner, Steven H. Bergman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Universal City, California;  Joel B. Kleinman, Larry F. Eisenstat, Geoffrey Bestor, Mark L. Perlis, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Danette E. Valdez (argued), Deputy Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistance Attorney General, Morris Beatus, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Lynn Hoch, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for Appellee.