Legal Opinion
Carr v. Southern Co.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided March 1, 1990No. Civ. A. CV189-118PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BOWEN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are residents of Georgia and seek to represent a class of ratepayers for electrical power within the state. They bring this suit against the electric utility defendants as well as Arthur Andersen & Co., the certified public accountant for the utility defendants. Plaintiffs allege that defendants, through their accounting methods, inflated maintenance costs submitted to the Public Service Commission (PSC) by expensing maintenance and emergency spare parts in the year purchased when in fact the spare parts were not used, if at all, until subsequent years.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- H. J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Burford v. Sun Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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- County of Suffolk v. Long Island Lighting Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- Taffet v. Southern Co.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
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- H.J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
- H.J., Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1990
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