Reimer v. K N Energy, Inc.

Plaintiff-appellant, Henry F. Reimer, on his own behalf and purportedly on behalf of all others similarly situated, seeks a declaration that a certain monthly “customer charge” imposed by defendant-appellee and counterclaimant, K N Energy, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, is confiscatory and thus uncollectible; seeks to enjoin future collection of the charge; and seeks to recover such payments of the charge as may have been made in the past by members of the purported class. In its counterclaim, K N Energy seeks judgment for the monthly customer charges Reimer has refused to pay. The district…