Jan Paul Fruiterman, M.D. & Associates, P.C. v. Waziri

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a joint RICO/state-law action involving telephone companies that allegedly misled a regulatory agency to obtain approval of higher rates was barred by the filed rate doctrine
• noting that the main thrust of the Filed Rate Doctrine is that agency-approved rates are “per se reasonable and unassailable in judicial proceedings brought by ratepayers”
• explaining that determination of fraud damages and determination of reasonable rate are “hopelessly intertwined.”
• finding no fraud exception to filed rate doctrine, reasoning that doctrine insulates from challenge filed rates deemed reasonable by regulatory agency
• applying filed rate doctrine based on nonjusticiability principle because agency better suited to “issue appropriate remedies to benefit the ratepayers”
• affirming dismissal of federal RICO claims and various state claims in connection with local telephone rates regulated by New York state PSC

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).