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· 5/16/1983

American Paper Institute, Inc. v. American Electric Power Service Corp.

Citations

  • 461 U.S. 402
  • 103 S. Ct. 1921
  • 76 L. Ed. 2d 22
  • 1983 U.S. LEXIS 29
  • 52 P.U.R.4th 329
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 4547

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that \the term full `avoided costs' used in the regulations is the equivalent of the term `incremental cost of alternative electric energy' used in § 210(d) of PURPA\
  • upholding the Commission's requirement that QFs receive full avoided cost rates, the statutory maximum under section 210
  • upholding the Commission's adoption of full avoided costs rates, the statutory maximum under section 210
  • upholding the Commission’s adoption of full avoided costs rates, the statutory maximum under section 210
  • upholding the Commission’s requirement that QFs receive full avoided cost rates, the statutory maximum under section 210
  • explaining that under the arbitrary and capricious standard of review a court “need not find that [the agency’s decision] is the only reasonable one, or even that it is the result [the Court] would have reached had the question arise in the first instance in judicial proceedings.”

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Judges: Marshall, Powell

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