United States Ninth Circuit
SINGLE MOMS, INC. v. MONTANA POWER CO., 02-35361
An electric and gas utility company's lobbying efforts, to influence lawmakers in deregulation of state energy markets, were not "state action" implicating 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiffs' constitutional rights.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/10/2003
- Published 06/10/2003
Judges
- Before LAY,FERGUSON, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Robert C. Kelleher, Sr., Butte, MT, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
- For Appellees:
- G. Steven Brown, Helena, MT, and Dennis R. Lopach, Northwestern Corporation, for defendant-appellee Montana Power Company., Chris D. Tweeten, Montana Attorney General's Office, Helena, MT, for defendant-appellee Montana legislators., Michael Lesch and Stephen H. Orel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, New York, NY, and Robert M. Murdo, Jackson, Murdo, Grant & McFarland, Helena, MT, for defendant-appellee PPL Montana., Kellie M. Gaston, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, Billings, MT, for defendant-appellee Encana Energy Resources, Inc.