Associated Dairies v. Fletcher

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the city of Jackson’s credit system did not guarantee property owners would receive a 100% credit and finding the city’s charge effectively compulsory
• stating that the compulsory nature of the charge was demonstrated in part by the fact that delinquent payments could result in the discontinuation of water service, the imposition of a lien, and the filing of a civil action to collect past-due charges
• noting that “maintaining a capital reserve is a common practice among rate-based utilities that provides a degree of fiscal stability to utilities[]” but that such capital reserves must be “closely calibrated to the actual use of the service or a price paid for a commodity[]”
• addressing a distinct charge called a “storm water management charge” imposed by city ordinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).