Houston Lighting & Power Co. v. Auchan USA, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a utility must provide nondiscriminatory service to all customers within its area
• expressing no opinion as to whether a tariff may limit liability for gross negligence or willful misconduct because the plaintiff had abandoned its gross-negligence claim
• refraining from analyzing jurisdiction over the tort claim because plaintiff abandoned the claim
• tariff was not unreasonable when it limited the liability of an electrical utility for economic damages caused by utility’s negligence
• “The public interest in protecting the financial integrity of public utilities is another basis for concluding that tariff provisions such as the one at issue in this case are not unreasonable when applied to claims for ordinary negligence.”
• limiting certain economic damages resulting from utility’s ordinary negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).