United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of an order of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) denying petitioner's request for a waiver of preemption under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the petition is granted where the DOE's stated justifications demonstrated an arbitrary and capricious failure meaningfully to address petitioner's application for a waiver.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2008
• Decided 10/28/2009
• Published 10/28/2009

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge:, Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR. and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and DAVID G. TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan Blees, Assistant Chief Counsel, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner., S. David Hotchkiss, Assistant City Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae City of Los Angeles;  Kristin Grenfell, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Natural Resources Defense Council;  Arlen Orchard, Sacramento, CA, for amici curiae Sacramento Municipal Utility District and California Municipal Utilities Association;  Jose E. Guzman, Jr., Nossaman, Gunthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae California Water Association;  Joseph M. Mattingly, Stephen R. Yurek, Arlington, VA, for amici curiae Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association, Inc, and Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, Inc.;   and Karen L. Tachiki, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.


• For Appellees:
  
• H. Thomas Byron, III, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent., Charles A. Samuels, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-respondent.