City of Sherman v. Public Utility Com'n of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that court had jurisdiction to consider claim that Public Utility Commission had no statutory authority to regulate operations or services of municipally owned utilities
• observing that “[a]gencies may only exercise those powers granted by statute, together with those necessarily implied from the statutory authority conferred or duties imposed”
• affirming an injunction to prevent an agency from acting beyond its authority
• The Commission “is neither expressly nor impliedly granted power to regulate groundwater production or adjudicate correlative groundwater rights.”
• The Commission “is neither expressly nor impliedly granted power to regulate groundwater production or adjudicate correlative groundwater rights.”
• upholding injunction to prevent agency from acting beyond its authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).