Wegoland, Ltd. v. Nynex Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding no general exception to the filed rate doctrine for fraud upon a regulatory commission based on non-justiciability strand
• filed rate doctrine “arguably inapplicable” in cases where court “not asked to decide what a reasonable rate would have been”
• filed rate doctrine barred ratepayers’ civil RICO action against telephone utility for excessive rates obtained through fraud of the regulatory commission
• “The filed rate doctrine is arguably inapplicable in cases like Nordlicht because in those cases courts are not asked to determine what a reasonable rate would have been.”
• in putative class action by all rate payers alleging fraud, district court reasoned that need for court to determine rate retroactively required adherence to the filed rate doctrine
• the filed rate doctrine was \arguably inapplicable\ in cases where \courts are not asked to determine what a reasonable rate should be.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).