United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff's suit, claiming that defendants manipulated the energy market and caused artificially high prices, is dismissed on preemption grounds where the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over interstate sales of wholesale electricity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/14/2004
• Decided 09/10/2004
• Published 09/10/2004

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve W. Berman and Sean R. Matt, Hagens Berman LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Colin A. Yost, Asssistant Attorney General-Oregon, Salem, OR, and Ken Alex, Deputy Attorney General-California, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry J. Houlihan and Nora Cregan, Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, Joel B. Kleinman, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, D.C., John M. Grenfell, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Peter H. Benzian, Latham & Watkins LLP, Jeffrey M. Shohet, Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, LLP, San Diego, CA, Theodore Spanos, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Bryan A. Merryman, White & Case LLP, Los Angeles, CA, J. Clifford Gunter, III, and Andrew Edison, Bracewell & Patterson LLP, Houston, TX, Douglas M. Butz, Butz Dunn Desantis & Bingham, San Diego, CA, Carlton A. Varner, Timothy B. Taylor, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees.