Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation v. Federal Power Commission

How courts have described this case

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• “A key factor the Board is required to consider when deciding to impose an extraordinary remedy is whether traditional remedies would be sufficient . . . .”
• agency has authority to assign effective date earlier than date of the issuance of the license, when project was maintained without license in violation of applicable law, in a discriminating manner that takes into account the willfulness of past noncompliance
• “reasonable” for Commission to issue licenses with effective dates earlier than date of issuance, since “[i]n general retrospective applications of law are not lightly inferred, but here the agency’s actions were a reasonable exercise of its implied authority”
• FPC empowered to backdate a license
• FPC empowered to backdate a license

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