Legal Opinion
Consumers Power Company, a Michigan Corporation v. Douglas M. Costle, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1980No. 79-1334PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARDS, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff in this case, Consumers Power Company, is one of two major public utilities in Michigan. It supplies both electricity and natural gas to home and industrial users in most of out-state Michigan. In this suit, filed against-the Environmental Protection Agency, Consumers sought adjudication in the District Court of its claim that it was entitled to $5,000,000 out of the total of federal funds which had been granted by EPA to three Michigan cities— Jackson, Bay City and Flint — to finance waste water and sewer projects.
The federal funds at stake were…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- New Orleans Gas Light Co. v. Drainage Commission of New OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
- City of Detroit v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1965
- Whitman v. State Highway Commission of MissouriDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1975
- Tennessee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by6 opinions
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