Legal Opinion
Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 23, 1945No. 189PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The Federal Power Commission has asserted jurisdiction to regulate the accounting practices of the Connecticut Light and Power Company. The Federal Power Act as amended in 1935, 49 Stat. 838, 16 U. S. C. § 792 et seq., declares a congressional policy concerning the business of transmitting and selling electric energy for ultimate distribution to the public, and states that regulation of “that part of such business which consists of the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and the sale of such energy at wholesale in interstate commerce is necessary in the public interest,…
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