Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Valley Electric Membership Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 8, 1993No. 92-9551PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Customers of rural electric cooperatives sued to obtain refunds of rate increases that allegedly violated the Louisiana Constitution. The district court abstained in favor of contemporaneous proceedings in the Louisiana Public Service Commission. We affirm.
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FACTS
Appellants are rural cooperatives distributing electric power to customers in Louisiana. Traditionally, such cooperatives were not subject to the authority of the Louisiana Public Service Commission (the Commission), which regulates public utilities in the state. A 1970 statute, however, included cooperatives…
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