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New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC v. Finley

Communications Law, Public Utilities
In a dispute involving rural local exchange carriers (RLEC) and two companies that provide commercial mobile radio service (CMRS), in which the CMRS...

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Hudson River-Black River Regulating Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a suit by a gas and electric power company against a water district for declaratory judgments regarding the district's assessment scheme, the...

Willard v. AT&T Communications of California, Inc.

Communications Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
In a suit challenging a telephone company's pricing for a service that suppressed names, addresses, and telephone numbers from the White Pages...

PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana

Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a suit by power companies claiming that the state of Montana was barred from seeking compensation for their use of riverbeds, in which Montana...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. US

Contracts, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a case involving the damages calculation for the government’s partial breach of a contract with a utility over the handling of spent nuclear fuel,...

Eiskamp v. Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency

Public Utilities, Water Law, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
In a suit against a water management agency for declaratory relief and a writ of mandate to challenge increased groundwater augmentation charges for...

System Fuels, Inc. v. US

Contracts, Government Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a case in which the United States Court of Federal Claims determined that the United States breached a contract for the removal of spent nuclear...

Water Replenishment District of Southern California v. City of Cerritos

Civil Procedure, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a suit by a group of water pumpers and a water district concerning underground storage space in the Central Basin, the trial court's order...

Gonzalez v. So. Ca. Gas

Injury & Tort Law, Public Utilities
In an appeal from a judgment of the trial court finding appellant liable to plaintiffs for the wrongful death of their daughter when she struck...

Montana Consumer Counsel v. FERC

Consumer Protection Law, Public Utilities, Remedies, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
In a petition for review of an order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopting a regulatory policy that allowed sellers of wholesale...