Potomac Electric Power Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Consolidated Rail Corporation, Intervenor

How courts have described this case

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• warning that \excessive delay saps the public confidence in an agency's ability to discharge its responsibilities\
• \[O]ur remand in the earlier appeal to this court implicitly included the understanding that the Commission would respond to our mandate in a timely manner.\
• authority under All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) (1982), to issue writ of mandamus to preserve future jurisdiction
• “The power grounded in 5 U.S.C. § 706(1) to compel agency action can also be effectuated through the use of a writ of mandamus.”
• “[O]nce the [agency] has rendered a final decision, the issue . . . will be moot.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).