Case Digests

PJM Power Providers Group v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Public Utilities
Industry: Energy | Federal Government | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Roth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elbert Lin, Charles D. Wallace, III, Hunton Andrews Kurth, Richmond, VA; John L. Shepherd, Jr., Hunton Andrews Kurth, Washington, DC; Paul W. Hughes, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, DC; Kriss E. Brown, Christian A. McDewell, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Harrisburg, PA; Thomas G. Lindgren, Werner L. Margard, III, Office of Attorney General of Ohio, Columbus, OH; Jeffrey W. Mayes, Monitoring Analytics, Eagleville, PA; Denise C. Goulet, McCarter & English, Washington, DC for petitioners.
for defendant: Jared B. Fish, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC; Danielle C. Fidler, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC; Peter Hopkins, Amber L. Martin Stone, Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Scott H. Strauss, Cynthia Bogorad, Lauren L. Springett, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC; Matthew Price, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC; Miles H. Mitchell, Maryland Public Service Commission, Baltimore, MD; David C. Apy, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey Division of Law, Trenton, NJ; Robert A. Weishaar, Jr., McNees Wallace & Nurick, Washington, DC; Ryan J. Collins, Paul M. Flynn, Wright & Talisman, Washington, DC; Caroline Reiser, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC; Casey Roberts, Sierra Club, Denver, CO; Megan C. Wachspress, Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Oakland, CA; Sarah A. Hunger, Office of Attorney General of Illinois, Chicago, IL Cynthia Bogorad, Lauren L. Springett, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC; Adrienne E. Clair, Thompson Coburn, Washington, DC; Daniel E. Frank, Allison Speaker, Eversheds Sutherland, Washington, DC; Andrew D. Cordo, Shannon E. German, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wilmington, DE; Gerit Hull, American Municipal Power, Columbus, OH; John E. McCaffrey, III, American Public Power Association, Arlington, VA; Anthony J. Corino, PSEG Corporation, Newark, NJ for respondents.
Case Number: 21-3068

FERC commissioners' statements following deadlock over proposed tariff were sufficient to demonstrate that the agency's "action through inaction" found the tariff just and reasonable.

The Delaware Div. of the Pub. Advocate v. The Delaware Pub. Serv. Comm'n

Publication Date: 2023-04-11
Practice Area: Public Utilities
Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Green-Streett
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Regina A. Ioii, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: James McC. Geddes, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Jessica M. Jones, Marisa R. De Feo, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: K22A-02-005 RLG

Public Service Commission's failure to make specific factual findings and legal conclusions when approving electric company's request to include pension and retirement benefit liabilities in the rate base precluded appellate review and required reversal of the decision.

Liborio III L.P. v. Artesian Water Co., Inc.

Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Practice Area: Public Utilities
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Vincent Ramunno, Ramunno & Ramunno, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
for defendant: Colin D. Dougherty, Fox Rothschild LLP, Blue Bell, PA; Courtney A. Emerson, Artesian Water Company, Inc., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: N22C-06-109 PRW

Breach of contract and fraud claims dismissed where public utility regulations plainly applied to parties' subsequently adopted water services agreement and the agreement explicitly referenced the applicability of the regulation to the agreement.

Glen Allen Farm, LLC v. New Castle County

Publication Date: 2020-10-14
Practice Area: Public Utilities
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, E. Chaney Hall, Wali W. Rushdan, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: Max B. Walton, Lauren P. DeLuca, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Merritt, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for respondents.
Case Number: D69150

Petitioner's effort to enforce, as a third-party beneficiary, a settlement agreement to provide sewer service dismissed as unripe where petitioner had failed to exhaust its administrative remedies with the county by requesting service and where any ruling would merely be advisory in nature as the required contingencies under the settlement had not yet been met.

Port Penn Hunting Lodge Ass'n v. Meyer

Publication Date: 2019-05-22
Practice Area: Public Utilities | Real Estate
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Montgomery-Reeves
Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Vincent Ramunno, Ramunno & Ramunno P.A., Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: Max B. Walton and Kyle Evans Gay, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE; Brian J. Merritt, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for respondents.
Case Number: D68472

Landowner failed to adequately allege that the county improperly refused to provide sewer service to the subject property.

Stevenson v. Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Envtl. Control

Publication Date: 2018-07-11
Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Public Utilities
Industry: Energy
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stokes
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Abbott for plaintiffs
for defendant: Ralph K. Durstein, III and Valerie S. Edge for defendants.
Case Number: D68213

Plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge amendments to Delaware law regarding utility pricing.

Whipple v. Pepco Holdings Inc., DeFAX Case No. D66914 (Del. Super. July 16, 2015) Jurden, P.J. (14 pages).

Publication Date: 2015-08-05
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
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Case Number: D66914