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Can states sue LDCs on behalf of residential customers?

✍ Scribed by Batla, Raymond J.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Weight: 230 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0743-5665
DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410060805

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✦ Synopsis

On January 16,1990, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal filed by the states of Kansas and Missouri of a January 1989 Tenth Circuit decision (Kansas and Missouri v. Kansas Power & Light. et. al.), that held that only direct purchasers of gas may bring antitrust damage suits relating to gas sales. The Tenth Circuit decision conflicts squarely with a 1988 en banc decision of the Seventh Circuit that allowed Illinois to sue Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. on behalf of customers behind Central Illinois Light Co. (see my Nurural Gas column of January 1989).* Kansas Power & Light involves contentions that five natural gas producers and a pipeline conspired to inflate the price of tight-sands gas produced in Wyoming.

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