Legal Opinion
Burns v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Decided August 2, 2007No. 78449-3PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶1 Seattle City Light (SCL) entered into franchise agreements with the cities of Shoreline, Burien, Lake Forest Park, SeaTac, and Tukwila (Cities). At issue in this case is the validity of a contractual provision common to each of the agreements, whereby SCL agreed to pay a percentage of revenues received from the Cities’ power *135customers in exchange for the Cities’ promise to forbear from establishing their own municipal electric utilities. The petitioners, representing a class of SCL ratepayers, contend that the payment provision violates RCW 35.21.860(1), which in relevant part provides…
2Cases cited57 opinions
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