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23-1069 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C…
23A731 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies When an agency deadlocks over a decision, and Congress tells courts that a deadlock is agency action that is reviewable in court, should a court faced…
23-773 Electric Power Supply Association v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied federal-power-act ferc independent-system-operators public-utilities public-utility rate-regulation regional-transmission-organization regional-transmission-organizations wholesale-electricity The Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. § 824 et seq, establishes the framework for federal regulation of the electric power industry. Its fundamental premis…
23A403 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete capacity-market federal-power-act ferc market-design public-utility rate-setting Whether capacity market offers—and, by extension, any offer by a public utility into one of the many auction-based markets overseen by FERC—are "rates…
22-743 Nevada Irrigation District, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (1) certification-request clean-water-act federal-power-act ferc ninth-circuit regulatory-review state-jurisdiction state-waiver water-discharge water-quality-certification Whether California "fail[ed] or refuse[d] to act" on petitioners' requests within one year as Section 401 requires by establishing the withdraw-andref…
22-256 Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-19 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) delegation district-court eminent-domain ferc non-delegation private-parties Whether a facial challenge to Congress's delegation of eminent domain power to private parties is properly filed in district court, as this Court held…
21-1064 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure contract energy energy-law ferc ferc-regulation judicial-review mobile-sierra-doctrine settlement settlement-contract tariff-interpretation 1. When all parties to a proceeding at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") enter a contract of settlement that provides for the filing o…
19-1039 PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-20 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) certificate-of-public-convenience constitutional-law eminent-domain federal-power ferc interstate-pipeline natural-gas-act state-property Whether the NGA delegates to FERC certificate holders the authority to exercise the federal government's eminent domain power to condemn land in which…
18-879 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. John B. Rhodes, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Amici (2) energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-preemption just-and-reasonable-rates market-based-auctions preemption state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets The question presented is whether the FPA preempts only state subsidies that explicitly require a wholesale generator to sell its output in FERC appro…
18-868 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. Anthony M. Star, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auction-rates federal-power-act ferc ferc-jurisdiction just-and-reasonable-rates market-rates preemption preemption-doctrine state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets The question presented is whether the FPA preempts only state subsidies that explicitly require a wholesale generator to sell its output in FERC appro…
18-153 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-03 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law cost-allocation energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-ratemaking ferc-refund-policy holding-company-cost-allocation preemption rate-making ratemaking refund regulatory-policy state-ratemaking supremacy-clause 1. Given this Court's holdings that the Federal Power Act ("FPA") preempts inconsistent state ratemaking and requires state agencies to treat cost all…