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· 6/15/2001

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Citations

  • 252 F.3d 456
  • 346 U.S. App. D.C. 265
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 13387

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a requirement that an agency should protect “consumer interests” is merely a “boilerplate truism” and not a “discretion-restricting guideline”
  • holding that “FERC’s decision to settle its enforcement action against Columbia was within the agency’s nonreviewable discretion”
  • “The ban on judicial review of actions ‘committed to agency discretion by law’ [under 5 U.S.C. § 701(a)(2
  • “The ban on judicial review of action ‘committed to agency discretion by law’ is jurisdictional.”
  • decision to settle an action

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Judges: Edwards, Sentelle, Randolph

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