Sierra Club brought this Clean Air Act (CAA) citizen suit against Otter Tail Power Company, MDU Resources Group, and Northwestern Energy, who own and operate the Big Stone Generating Station, a coal fired power plant near the border between South Dakota and Minnesota. Sierra Club alleged that Otter ...   MORE>>

Following the California energy crisis of 2000–01, the California Independent System Operator (California ISO or the ISO) began the process of redesigning California’s electricity market. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued a series of orders providing guidan...   MORE>>

Hoot General Construction appeals the district court's verdict against it and in favor of John T. Jones Construction in an action brought on a contract between the two companies. Jones, in turn, appeals the district court's refusal to award certain liquidated damages and the district court's decisio...   MORE>>

The Village of Rockton, Illinois, and the Rock Energy Cooperative are fighting over who ultimately will own some assets used by the natural gas and electric utilities in the area. Originally the assets were the property of Alliant Energy, but Alliant wanted to sell them. They wound up in Rock Energy...   MORE>>

Michael Siegel, like many Americans, didn’t like the price he was paying for gasoline. So he sued five of the eight largest oil companies. Siegel moved for class certification, seeking relief under both the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (“ICFA”), 815 Ill. Comp. S...   MORE>>

Investors injured by fraud may recover under federal securities law only if the deceit caused them to purchase or sell securities. Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores, 421 U.S. 723 (1975). This purchaser-seller rule limits implied private rights of action but not the substantive requirements of fe...   MORE>>

In Interstate Natural Gas Association of America v. FERC, 285 F.3d 18 (D.C. Cir. 2002) (INGAA), we upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to lift, for a two-year experimental period, cost-based price ceilings on natural gas shippers’ releases of unused firm pipeline tr...   MORE>>

Petitioner-Employer Energy West Mining Company seeks a petition for review of a Benefits Review Board (BRB) decision and order affirming an Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) award of full black lung benefits to Respondent-Claimant Mr. Geary Hunsinger. Energy West asserts Mr. Hunsinger’s twenty-fi...   MORE>>

Drew Edmondson, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, sued the petitioners in this case (collectively “BP”) in Oklahoma state court, alleging that they manipulated propane gas prices in violation of various provisions of the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act. BP responded by removing the case to fede...   MORE>>

This appeal arises out of an action by the Pit River Tribe, the Native Coalition For Medicine Lake Highlands Defense, and Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center (collectively Pit River) against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the United States Forest Service, the Advisory Council on Historic P...   MORE>>