federal-power-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-438 Pacific Gas & Electric Company, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Ninth Circuit 2025-10-09 Pending Response Waived federal-power-act ferc-jurisdiction interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-incentives Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held that the Federal Power Act does not preempt California's RTO mandate and whether RTO mandates render utilitie…
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly held that the Federal Power Act does not preempt Ohio's RTO mandate and whether RTO mandates render utilities inel…
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…
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 Whether a public utility supplier's offer into a wholesale electricity auction is a 'rate[] * ** demanded' under the Federal Power Act, and therefore …
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 constitute 'rates' under Section 205 of the Federal Power Act, such that public utilities retain the primary right to s…
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
19-6967 Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation Whether PURPA provides comprehensive remedies that foreclose 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-983 City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-01-29 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases set forth in Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act foreclose a judicially created exception …
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 Whether the Federal Power Act preempts state subsidies that lack an express requirement to sell in FERC-approved auctions but that, by design, subsidi…
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 Whether the Federal Power Act preempts state subsidies that lack an express requirement to sell in FERC-approved auctions but that, by design, subsidi…
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 Given the text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari, the issue being raised is: May FERC deny a refund authorized by FPA Section 206(b) based o…