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ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERV. COMM. (34216)

    Order dated: 11/04/02
    Docket number: 02-299
    Action:
        The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERV. COMM. (34216)

    Order dated: 01/17/03
    Docket number: 02-299
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The brief of petitioner is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Monday, March 3, 2003. The brief of respondents is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Wednesday, April 2, 2003. A reply brief, if any, is to be filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 3 p.m., Monday, April 21, 2003. Rule 29.2 does not apply.

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERV. COMM. (34216)

    Order dated: 04/18/03
    Docket number: 02-299
    Action:
        The motions of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument are granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether Mississippi Power & light v. Mississippi ex rel. Moore, 487 U.S. 354 (1988), and Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg, 476 U.S. 953 (1986), require a state public utility commission to allow an electric utility member of a multi-state power system to recover, in retail rates, the costs allocated to it by a rate schedule of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), or whether the state commission has jurisdiction to decide that it was imprudent for such a utility to incur the costs allocated to it under a FERC rate schedule, thereby trapping such wholesale costs?

An opinion has been handed down: