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· 6/7/1976

Federal Power Commission v. Conway Corp.

Citations

  • 426 U.S. 271
  • 96 S. Ct. 1999
  • 48 L. Ed. 2d 626
  • 1976 U.S. LEXIS 129

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that Title VII bars racial discrimination “against whites on the same terms as racial discrimination against nonwhites”
  • accepting assumption that the Commission could not remedy a utility's discrimination between wholesale (jurisdictional) rates and retail (nonjurisdictional) rates by ordering increases in the latter
  • directing FERC to consider “anticompetitive effects” of conduct alleged to have violated § 205 of the Federal Power Act
  • accepting assumption that the Commission could not remedy a utility’s discrimination between wholesale (jurisdictional) rates and retail (nonjurisdictional) rates by ordering increases in the latter
  • requiring agency to consider price-squeeze challenges to an electric utility's proposed wholesale rates
  • addressing price squeeze and finding that a reasonable rate can be discriminatory

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Judges: White

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