Legal Opinion
Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 1943No. Nos. 299, 329PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
These two cases bring here for review the construction of §§ 201 and 203 (a) of the Federal Power Act, as amended by the Public Utility Act of 1935. 1 These sections are included in Title II, Part II, of the latter act, which Part relates to federal regulation of the business of the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and the sale of such energy at wholesale. By these sections, the public utilities subject to the Federal Power Commission are defined and the acquisition of securities of such utilities by any other utility subject to the act is forbidden without authorization…
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