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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | VERIZON MARYLAND INC. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM'N OF MARYLAND |
| Date: | 05/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1531 |
| Summary: | Jurisdiction is found under 28 U.S.C. section 1331, for a local-exchange carrier's claim that a state public utility commission's order, requiring reciprocal compensation for ISP-bound calls, is pre-empted by federal law; suit against commissioners in their individual capacities is not barred by Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, where no past liability of the state or its commissioners is at issue. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Communications Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N |
| Date: | 05/13/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-511 |
| Summary: | The FCC can require state utility commissions to set rates charged by incumbent telephone service carriers for leased elements on a forward-looking basis, untied to the incumbents' actual investment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Oil & Gas Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | NEW YORK v. F.E.R.C. |
| Date: | 03/04/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-568 |
| Summary: | While Section 205 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) gives the federal government control over management of the country's power grids, F.E.R.C. is not required under Section 206 of the FPA to regulate bundled retail power transmissions or to order universal unbundling where it determines that a remedy it orders sufficiently responds to regulating the wholesale energy market. |