Texaco Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in Union Pacific Fuels, the court \ inadvertently lent support to the inference\ that absent express language invoking Mobile-Sierra, FERC ordinarily is free to review rates without regard to the Mobile-Sierra presumption (emphasis added)
• noting that in Union Pacific Fuels, the court “inadvertently lent support to the inference” that absent express language invoking Mobile-Sierra, FERC ordinarily is free to review rates without regard to the Mobile-Sierra presumption (emphasis added)
• “We will also defer to the agency’s reasonable interpretation both of its own regulations and of contracts that are subject to its rules.”
• nature of public interest necessary to override a negotiated rate in a private contract is different from and significantly more particularized than the public interest that bears on other utility rate issues

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