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· 4/18/2003

Chippewa & Flambeau Improvement Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Citations

  • 325 F.3d 353
  • 355 U.S. App. D.C. 453
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 7314
  • 2003 WL 1893253

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “necessary or appropriate” standard in FPA section 309 shows “Congress invested the Commission with significant discretion” to “set out a series of relevant factors” to govern its analysis
  • upholding FERC’s “case-by-case approach to determining whether a reservoir is ‘necessary or appropriate’” where it “adequately explained its application of that approach to the facts of this case”

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Judges: Ginsburg, Edwards, Garland

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