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New Jersey Board of Public Utilities v. FERC

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
Petitions for review of a ruling of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approving a revised tariff submitted by PJM Interconnection, LLC...

The Utility Reform Network v. Public Utilities Commission

Administrative Law, Evidence, Public Utilities
The California Public Utilities Commission's approval of PG&E's application for a new gas-fired power plant is annulled, where: 1) the Commission's...

North Carolina Utilities Commission v. FERC

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
In a challenge to incentives granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to a Virginia electric power company (VEPCO) to encourage...

Alliance for Property Rights and Fiscal Responsibility v. City of Idaho Falls

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
Summary judgment for plaintiffs in an action brought by plaintiff-property owners who objected to defendant-city's efforts to condemn easements over...

San Pablo Bay Pipeline Co. v. California Public Utilities Commission

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
The decision by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) concerning the refund of a portion of the fees the petitioners collected from certain companies...

Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC v. Shumlin

Constitutional Law, Public Utilities, Tax Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' suit brought against various state officers in their official capacities claiming that a Generating Tax imposed solely...

Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Public Utilities
In a suit in which plaintiff sought a declaration that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 preempted the Iowa Utilities Board's (IUB) decision that...

Association of Public Agency Customers v. Bonneville Power Administration

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
A petition for review of a decision of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) adopting the Residential Exchange Program Settlement Agreement, which...

Northwest Resource Information Center, Inc. v. Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Public Utilities
The Sixth Northwest Power Plan, adopted by defendant, is: 1) affirmed, where plaintiffs did not point to any part of the Pacific Northwest Electric...

Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC v. Shumlin

Contracts, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities
In a suit brought by the owner/operator of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station against the state and its officials seeking declaratory and...