utility-regulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A490 Kimberly Hanley, et al. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania 2025-10-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law advanced-metering due-process federal-preemption privacy-rights utility-regulation Question not identified.
24-1318 American Electric Power Service Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied energy-law federal-power-act interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-regulation Regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") operate the interstate electricity grid independently, to foster competition, improve reliability, and lo…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation 1. Whether a federal agency does not act arbitrarily or capriciously in determining that a postsettlement change of law concerning one alleged compone…
22-1083 Kent Chandler, in His Official Capacity as Chairman and Commissioner of Kentucky Public Service Commission, et al. v. Foresight Coal Sales, LLC Sixth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coal-severance-tax discrimination dormant-commerce-clause economic-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation utility-costs utility-regulation The dormant Commerce Clause is meant to prevent economic isolation among the States. But just how far does that go? The Sixth Circuit held that a Ken…
22-601 Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) commerce-clause federal-energy-regulatory-commission incumbent-utilities police-power public-utilities state-regulation transmission-lines utility-regulation Whether, consistent with the Commerce Clause, States may exercise their core police power to regulate public utilities by recognizing a preference for…
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether judges may make findings of fact at the pleading stage in dismissing claims for "failure to state a claim." Whether the District Court erred …