Texas Lawyer
Monday, December 24, 2007
The Public Utility Regulatory Act does not give the Public Utility Commission express or implied power to regulate, modify or abrogate the power sales contracts between Texas Municipal Power Agency and its member cities or the bundled uniform sales rate charged to municipality-owned utilities under that contract.
Texas Lawyer
Monday, September 10, 2007
The trial court abused its discretion in denying Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s jurisdictional plea, because the plaintiffs alleging rate cap violations did not exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit.
Texas Lawyer
Monday, December 4, 2006
Time Warner Cable is not a utility within the purview of 11 U.S.C. §366 and is therefore not required to continue providing Damon Darby service after his offer of adequate assurances.
Texas Lawyer
Monday, June 28, 2004
Electric utilities companies potentially are entitled to billions of dollars in interest that could be collected from ratepayers under the state's 1999 electric deregulation law, a divided Texas Supreme Court ruled on June 18.