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Regulatory Linearity, Commerce Clause Brinksmanship, And Retrenchment In Electric Utility Deregulation, Joel B. Eisen
Regulatory Linearity, Commerce Clause Brinksmanship, And Retrenchment In Electric Utility Deregulation, Joel B. Eisen
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The point of this Article is that if an agency has reached this point in the lifetime of its reinvention efforts by being "linear," then the experiment should end. In the case of restructuring, that is not the case, but two aspects of the situation make it exquisitely difficult to see this: an agency that is trying the same ideas repeatedly (FERC) and a complex set of variables that has hampered restructuring activity. Through this fog, the final point to be made is that if moving beyond the current stasis requires change, this should be contemplated. This industry is famously …