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Public Utilities - Federal Power Commission- Just And Reasonable Rate - Rate Base - Going Value - Original Investment As Amortization Base, Michigan Law Review May 1942

Public Utilities - Federal Power Commission- Just And Reasonable Rate - Rate Base - Going Value - Original Investment As Amortization Base, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Smyth v. Ames, source of the elusive principle that has pestered courts and public utility commissions since 1898, is still not a dead letter. Doubtless the only reason its doctrine stands at this late date is that no recent case has forced the Court to reconsider the "fair value" rule. However, in Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, decided by the Court on March 16, 1942, three justices took occasion to "lay the ghost" of the 1898 decision once and for all and to declare that the case "erases much which has been written …


Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935 - Extension Of Maturity Date As New "Issue", Edmund O'Hare May 1939

Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935 - Extension Of Maturity Date As New "Issue", Edmund O'Hare

Michigan Law Review

Defendant a public utility holding company, wished to obtain a one year extension of the maturity date of its unsecured "5 1/2 % Convertible Investment Certificates" by inducing the holders thereof to assent to such extension in return for a twenty per cent payment of the principal of each certificate. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued to enjoin defendant from using the mails or other instrumentalities of interstate commerce in carrying out its plan, because defendant had not filed a declaration under section 7 of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935, in connection with the proposed extension. Held …


Constitutional Law -Validity Of Registration Provisions Of Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935, Gerald L. Stoetzer Jun 1938

Constitutional Law -Validity Of Registration Provisions Of Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935, Gerald L. Stoetzer

Michigan Law Review

In recognition of the abuses that arise from the monopolistic tendencies of holding companies in the public utility field and of the inability of the respective states to exert the necessary control thereof, Congress has attempted to draw certain of the public utility holding companies within the inquisitorial and regulatory control of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, reciting in great detail facts showing the necessity for control of holding companies having as subsidiaries electric and gas operating utilities, indicates that Congress regarded the uncontrolled utility holding company as "an agency which, …


Public Utilities - Holding Companies - Power Of State Commission To Regulate Intercorporate Charges Jan 1935

Public Utilities - Holding Companies - Power Of State Commission To Regulate Intercorporate Charges

Michigan Law Review

The Public Service Commission of Kansas issued an order directing nine local gas companies to cease setting up as an item of operating expense more than a certain amount for gas being furnished the companies by an interstate pipe line company. The nine distributing companies and the pipe line company, all of which were affiliated companies within the meaning of a Kansas statute and ultimately controlled by the same holding company, secured an injunction in the three-judge federal court, and the commission appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Held, that the injunction should not have been granted. State …