Federal Power Commission v. Southern California Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that FPA left no power to the states to regulate licensees’ sales for resale in interstate commerce
• stating that Congress gave FERC’s predecessor, the Federal Power Commission, exclusive jurisdiction over wholesale sales in interstate commerce
• applying test set forth in Attleboro Steam & Elec. Co., 273 U.S. 83, 47 S.Ct. 294, 71 L.Ed. 549 (1927)
• applying test set forth in Attleboro Steam & Elec. Co. , 273 U.S. 83 (1927)
• FPA drew a bright jurisdictional line “by making FPC jurisdiction plenary and extending it to all wholesale sales” except those explicitly subject to state regulation
• \What Congress did was to adopt the test developed in the Attleboro line which denied state power to regulate a sale 'at wholesale to local distributing companies' and allowed state regulation of a sale at 'local retail rates to ultimate consumers.' \ (citation omitted

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