Legal Opinion

City of Redding v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided August 27, 2012No. 09-72775, 09-72789, 09-72791PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge CLIFTON; Dissent by Judge McKEOWN.

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CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:

This story begins over a decade ago during the California energy crisis of 2000 and 2001. This court1 and this panel 2 have become very familiar with those events. After California deregulated and restructured its electricity market in the mid 1990s, prices skyrocketed. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) attempted to ameliorate this problem by ordering refunds from both jurisdictional (public) and non-jurisdietional (non-public) entities for prices paid above what FERC later determined to be the…

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  4. Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 2001
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3Cited by15 opinions

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  2. El Paso Electric Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2016
  3. Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. the United States 07-157c andUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2013
  4. People of the State of California Ex Rel. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of the State of California v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2015
  5. Synergy Project Mgmt., Inc. v. City & Cnty. of S.F., California Court of Appeal, 5th District2019

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