Legal Opinion
In Re City of Virginia Beach, Commonwealth of Virginia, Amicus Curiae
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1994No. 94-1904PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
The City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, petitions this court for a writ of mandamus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to compel the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enter, by a date certain,^ final decision on an application for approval of a water pipeline from Lake Gaston, located on the North Carolina-Virginia border, to Virginia Beach. The petition, which is an interlocutory request for relief, essentially states that FERC is unnecessarily delaying entry of its decision on this long-pending project for arbitrary and capricious reasons. Although we…
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