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IDAHO POWER CO. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
In challenges to FERC orders barring a power company from entering into a contract to provide electricity, FERC's interpretation of a right of first...

THE GREENLINING INST. v. THE PUB. UTILS. COMM'N OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA (PAC. BELL TELE. CO.)

Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law, Public Utilities
The Public Utilities Commission has no jurisdiction to adjudicate Unfair Competition Law complaints under either the Unfair Business Practices Act...

FLORIDA INDUS. POWER USERS GROUP v. JABER

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
The Public Service Commission's determinations, as to the reasonableness of an electric company's transactions with an unregulated wholesale...

COUNTY OF SANTA FE v. PUB. SERV. CO. OF NEW MEXICO

Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
Dismissal of a complaint-in-intervention, alleging that a county's settlement agreement lacked any basis in fact or law, was improper under FRCP...

CITY OF PASADENA v. AT&T COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

Contracts, Public Utilities, Tax Law
To "remit" a tax payment under the Pasadena Municipal Code means to send, transmit, or forward money, and a payment is thus remitted when it is...

VERIZON NORTH, INC. v. STRAND

Communications Law, Public Utilities
In an incumbent local telecommunications carrier's challenge to a Michigan Public Service Commission order, a tariff requirement was inconsistent with...

MARCUS CABLE ASSOCS., L.P. v. KROHN

Communications Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
An easement that permits its holder to use private property for the purpose of constructing and maintaining "an electric transmission or distribution...

PAC. GAS AND ELEC. v. CITY OF OAKLAND

Public Utilities, Tax Law
Summary adjudication and damage award for excessive taxes paid, in favor of plaintiff who challenged the constitutionality of City's business tax,...

CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF WATER RES. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Public Utilities
Circuit court did not have jurisdiction to review FERC orders requiring petitioner, a contractual rightsholder with firm transmission contracts, to...

PUGET SOUND ENERGY, INC. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Public Utilities
A challenge, to a procedure followed by a federal agency in making charges for use of electric transmission lines, cannot be heard on the merits where...