Legal Opinion
Northern States Power Co. v. North Dakota Public Service Commission
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided June 18, 1993No. Civ. 920315PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESCHKE, Justice.
Northern States Power Company [NSP] appeals from a district court judgment affirming orders by the Public Service Commission [PSC] that deny trade secret protection for information in contracts that NSP was required to file with the PSC. We affirm the PSC’s denial of trade secret protection.
NSP operates and maintains a natural gas distribution system in eastern North Dakota and, since the mid-1980s, has offered interruptible transportation service to large volume customers of natural gas. Under its filed tariff for this service, NSP individually negotiates the price term of…
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