Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co. v. Montana Federation of Labor

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that laches barred a pre-enforcement declaratory judgment action alleging that a price regulation was invalid
• holding that laches barred a pre-enforcement declaratory judgment action alleging that a price regulation was invalid
• exercising jurisdiction to decide issue of contract interpretation because “incident to and interwoven with,” overcharge claim
• “We are free to make an independent determination of the legal question as to whether the agency has made a showing of good cause.”
• “mere announcement” of proposed oil industry rule could cause price discrimination and market dislocations
• good cause where drastic economic harms of price discrimination and market dislocation which price control rule sought to prevent was likely to result if price controls were announced in advance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).