United States Ninth Circuit

Public Utilities

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2002
• Decided 12/19/2003
• Published 12/19/2003

Judges

• Before: BROWNING, THOMAS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terry J. Houlihan and Geoffrey T. Holtz, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  John C. Morrissey and Brian I. Cheng, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP, Los Angeles;  CA;  for the intervenor-appellant Reliant Energy Services, Inc., Bryan A. Merryman and Lisa A. Cottle, White & Case LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the intervenor-appellant Mirant Americas Energy Marketing, LP., Keith R. McCrea and Jim Bushee, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, DC, for the intervenor-appellant California Manufacturers and Technology Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert E. Finkelstein and Randolph L. Wu, The Utility Reform Network, San Francisco, CA;  Michael J. Strumwasser, Frederic D. Woocher,Johanna R. Shargel, Daniel J. Sharfstein, Strumwasser & Woocher LLP, Santa Monica, CA;  for the defendant-intervenor-appellant., Gary M. Cohen, Arocles Aguilar, Harvey Y. Morris, and Carrie G. Pratt, Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Stephen Pickett, Barbara Reeves, and Kris G. Vyas, Southern California Edison Company, Rosemead, CA;  Ronald L. Olson, John W. Spiegel, and Henry Weissmann, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  for the plaintiff-appellee.