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National Ass'n of Regulatory Util. Comm'rs v. FERC

Administrative Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
Challenge to respondent's orders requiring all transmission facilities to adopt a standard agreement for interconnecting with operators of electric...

Rural Iowa Indep. Tel. Ass'n v. Iowa Utils. Bd.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
A decision of the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) regarding wireless phone calls which originate and terminate within the same major trading area (MTA), or...

US v. Lake

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Public Utilities, Securities Law, White Collar Crime
Defendants' convictions, arising from an alleged "far-reaching scheme to milk Kansas' largest public utility for all they could through a pattern of...

Shaw v. Tampa Elec. Co.

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Remedies
In an action brought by homeowners in a neighborhood challenging defendant-utility's installation of exceptionally large electrical transmission poles...

Sacramento Mun. Util. Dist. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
Petition challenging order denying petitioner local utility opportunity to continue purchasing transmission services through a contract that expired...

McGee v. Pub. Water Supply

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Public Utilities
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming unconstitutional retaliation arising from plaintiff's termination as District Manager for a county water...

AEP Texas N. Co. v. Texas Indus. Energy Consumers

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
Pursuant to the filed rate doctrine, federal law preempts state regulators from making a final determination as to whether a Federal Energy Regulatory...

White v. Detroit Edison Co.

Labor & Employment Law, Public Utilities
In an action against a union and a former employer alleging breach of the duty of fair representation and termination without cause in violation of...

Pub. Util. Dist. No. 1 of Snohomish County Washington v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In an appeal dealing with wholesale energy contracts for future energy supplies, known as "forward" contracts, entered into by power companies in...

Pub. Util. Comm'n of the State of California v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
A petition for review challenging the statutory validity of electric power rates in certain wholesale power contracts are granted where, applying the...