Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Regulation (8)
- Public interest (5)
- Rates (5)
- Smyth v. Ames (5)
- Atomic Energy Commission (4)
-
- Confiscatory rates (4)
- Due process (4)
- Interstate commerce (4)
- Natural gas (4)
- Nuclear power (4)
- Utilities (4)
- Valuation (4)
- Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (3)
- Depreciation (3)
- Electricity (3)
- Energy policy (3)
- Fair value theory (3)
- Fixed rates (3)
- Interstate Commerce Commission (3)
- Law reform (3)
- Munn v. Illinois (3)
- Police powers (3)
- Public use (3)
- Public utilities (3)
- Radiation (3)
- Subsidaries (3)
- Telephone companies (3)
- Common carriers (2)
- Competition (2)
- Confiscation (2)
Articles 1 - 30 of 102
Full-Text Articles in Law
Grasping For Energy Democracy, Shelley Welton
Grasping For Energy Democracy, Shelley Welton
Michigan Law Review
Until recently, energy law has attracted relatively little citizen participation. Instead, Americans have preferred to leave matters of energy governance to expert bureaucrats. But the imperative to respond to climate change presents energy regulators with difficult choices over what our future energy sources should be, and how quickly we should transition to them—choices that are outside traditional regulatory expertise. For example, there are currently robust nationwide debates over what role new nuclear power plants and hydraulically fractured natural gas should play in our energy mix, and over how to maintain affordable energy for all while rewarding those who choose to …
The New Front In The Clean Air Wars: Fossil-Fuel Influence Over State Attorneys General- And How It Might Be Checked, Eli Savit
Michigan Law Review
Review of Struggling for Air: Power and the "War On Coal" by Richard L. Revesz and Jack Leinke, and Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America by Paul Nolette.
Medicine As A Public Calling, Nicholas Bagley
Medicine As A Public Calling, Nicholas Bagley
Michigan Law Review
The debate over how to tame private medical spending tends to pit advocates of government-provided insurance—a single-payer scheme—against those who would prefer to harness market forces to hold down costs. When it is mentioned at all, the possibility of regulating the medical industry as a public utility is brusquely dismissed as anathema to the American regulatory tradition. This dismissiveness, however, rests on a failure to appreciate just how deeply the public utility model shaped health law in the twentieth century— and how it continues to shape health law today. Closer economic regulation of the medical industry may or may not …
Regulating Electricity-Market Manipulation: A Proposal For A New Regulatory Regime To Proscribe All Forms Of Manipulation, Matthew Evans
Regulating Electricity-Market Manipulation: A Proposal For A New Regulatory Regime To Proscribe All Forms Of Manipulation, Matthew Evans
Michigan Law Review
Congress broadly authorized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to protect consumers of electricity from all forms of manipulation in the electricity markets, but the regulations that FERC passed are not nearly so expansive. As written, FERC’s Anti-Manipulation Rule covers only instances of manipulation involving fraud. This narrow scope is problematic, however, because electricity markets can also be manipulated by nonfraudulent activity. Thus, in order to reach all forms of manipulation, FERC is forced to interpret and apply its Anti-Manipulation Rule in ways that strain the plain language and accepted understanding of the rule and therefore constitute an improper extension …
The Electrical Deregulation Fiasco: Looking To Regulatory Federalism To Promote A Balance Between Markets And The Provision Of Public Goods, Jim Rossi
Michigan Law Review
Over the last thirty years, regulators have deregulated just about every regulated industry. In no industry has deregulation raised as much fear and concern as in electric power markets. Even before the Enron debacle, a crisis that is more about the failures of corporate than regulatory law, it was clear that something had gone seriously wrong in the turn towards deregulation of electric power. Recent events in California are illustrative. In early 2000, consumers in California, the first state to deregulate retail power markets on a mass scale, saw repeated months of power interruptions. Many utility customers experienced a risk …
Powerline: The First Battle Of America's Energy War, Michigan Law Review
Powerline: The First Battle Of America's Energy War, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War by Barry M. Casper and Paul David Wellstone
Energy: The Next Twenty Years, Michigan Law Review
Energy: The Next Twenty Years, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Energy: The Next Twenty Years by A Study Group Sponsored by the Ford Foundation Administered by Resources for the Future
Nuclear Power And Legal Advocacy, Michigan Law Review
Nuclear Power And Legal Advocacy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Nuclear Power and Legal Advocacy by Constance Ewing Cook
Restrictions On Electric Utility Advertising, Michigan Law Review
Restrictions On Electric Utility Advertising, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note reconsiders the constitutionality of New York's restriction on advertising by electric utilities. Section I explains how and why the Supreme Court's current analysis of the first amendment distinguishes commercial speech from other forms of speech. Section II looks at what protection is due commercial speech and weighs the competing interests in the specific context of utility advertising. The Note concludes that states may restrict utility advertising to encourage energy conservation.
Nuclear Power: Risk, Liability, And Indemnity, Harold P. Green
Nuclear Power: Risk, Liability, And Indemnity, Harold P. Green
Michigan Law Review
In 1946, the Congress of the United States enacted the original Atomic Energy Act as the framework for development, control, and use of atomic energy. This Act provided for the transfer to the new Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a civilian agency, of the entire atomic energy program which to that point had been conducted by the Manhattan Engineer District, a creature of the United States Army. The Act contemplated that the heart of the nuclear technology-the production of special nuclear material and the use of special nuclear material in both military and civil applications- would be a government monopoly. All …
Boskey & Willrich: Nuclear Proliferation: Prospects; And Willrich: Civil Nuclear Power And International Security, Charles N. Van Doren
Boskey & Willrich: Nuclear Proliferation: Prospects; And Willrich: Civil Nuclear Power And International Security, Charles N. Van Doren
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Nuclear Proliferation: Prospects for Control edited by Bennett Boskey and Mason Willrich, and Civil Nuclear Power and International Security edited by Mason Willrich
Representation Of The Public Interest In Michigan Utility Rate Proceedings, Michigan Law Review
Representation Of The Public Interest In Michigan Utility Rate Proceedings, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Although the Free Press study centered on political and economic issues, the operation of the Michigan Public Service Commission also raises significant issues regarding the role of public intervenors, agency compliance with statutory requirements, statutory construction, and legislative response to regulatory deficiencies. This Comment will consider the representation of the public interest in Michigan utility proceedings in the context of rate cases involving the state's major utilities. While such an analysis does not reach the breadth of activities performed by the Commission, it is suggestive of the extent to which the Commission is responsive to the public interest generally. Following …
Jurisdiction--Atomic Energy--Federal Pre-Emption And State Regulation Of Radioactive Air Pollution: Who Is The Master Of The Atomic Genie?, Michigan Law Review
Jurisdiction--Atomic Energy--Federal Pre-Emption And State Regulation Of Radioactive Air Pollution: Who Is The Master Of The Atomic Genie?, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Pending litigation between the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Northern States Power Company presents a potential federal-state conflict over the right of a state to impose upon operators of nuclear power plants more exacting pollution control standards than those required by regulations of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The AEC issued Northern States Power Company a permit to construct a nuclear power generating plant in Monticello, Minnesota. The regulations under which that permit was issued place a ceiling on the amount of radioactive effluents which can be discharged into the air during the course of the plant's operations. But under …
Actual Expenses Of Ohio Utility Are Considered In Computing Rates Even Though The Hypothetical Company Technique Is Used-General Tel. Co. V. Public Util. Comm'n, Michigan Law Review
Actual Expenses Of Ohio Utility Are Considered In Computing Rates Even Though The Hypothetical Company Technique Is Used-General Tel. Co. V. Public Util. Comm'n, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio established rates for plaintiff telephone company. In determining the gross annual revenues to which the company was entitled, the Commission allowed, as an item of expense, 112 thousand dollars less for federal income tax than the company would actually be required to pay during the year in question. The allowance for taxes was calculated by following the so-called "hypothetical company" formula as apparently required by a recent line of Ohio Supreme Court decisions. On direct appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, held, order reversed, two judges dissenting. The utility company should be allowed …
State Control Of Radiation Hazards: An Intergovernmental Relations Problem, Samuel D. Estep, Martin Adelman
State Control Of Radiation Hazards: An Intergovernmental Relations Problem, Samuel D. Estep, Martin Adelman
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this article is to set forth the nature of the intergovernmental problem. This involves an analysis of the extent and limitations of federal power, a determination of congressional intent on the issue of federal pre-emption, and an appraisal of the steps now being taken by the Atomic Energy Commission to turn over part of the radiation safety regulatory program to the states.
Stason, Estep And Pierce: Atoms And The Law, Harry Kalven, Jr.
Stason, Estep And Pierce: Atoms And The Law, Harry Kalven, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Atoms and the Law. By E. Blythe Stason, Samuel D. Estep and William J. Pierce. [Parts I and II* Pp. 1-846]
Atomic Energy Law-Atomic Energy Act Of 1954- Substantial Legal Restrictions On The Private Development Of Nuclear Reactors, Martin Adelman
Atomic Energy Law-Atomic Energy Act Of 1954- Substantial Legal Restrictions On The Private Development Of Nuclear Reactors, Martin Adelman
Michigan Law Review
In 1956 the Power Reactor Development Company received a construction permit from the Atomic Energy Commission to build a fast breeder nuclear reactor at Lagoona Beach, thirty miles southwest of Detroit, Michigan. Intervening pursuant to section 189 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, several unions claimed that the health, safety, and property of their members would be jeopardized by the operation of the reactor. Formal hearings were held before the AEC and a final decision affirming the issuance of a construction permit to PRDC was made by the Commission in 1959. On appeal to the Court of Appeals for …
Sullivan: Conservation Of Oil And Gas. A Legal History - 1958, Joseph R. Julin
Sullivan: Conservation Of Oil And Gas. A Legal History - 1958, Joseph R. Julin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Conservation of Oil and Gas. A Legal History - 1958. Edited by Robert E. Sullivan.
Atoms For Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency, Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Eric Stein
Atoms For Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency, Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Eric Stein
Michigan Law Review
On October 26, 1956 seventy states signed an international agreement described as the Statute of an International Atomic Energy Agency. This signing followed a conference of over a month in which eighty-two states participated. All of the participating states supported the text which resulted from this conference-a truly remarkable result considering that the subject of the conference was atomic energy with its far-reaching international security implications.
Constitutional Law - Delegation Of Legislative Power - Use Of State Agency Classification As Basis For Federal Law, James Tobin
Constitutional Law - Delegation Of Legislative Power - Use Of State Agency Classification As Basis For Federal Law, James Tobin
Michigan Law Review
Under provisions of the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act a coal mine is classified as gassy within the meaning of the act, and certain precautionary measures are thereby required, when the U. S. Bureau of Mines finds that the mine atmosphere fails to meet tests set forth in the act or when the mine is found to be a "gassy or gaseous mine pursuant to and in accordance with the laws of the State in which it is located." One of appellant's coal mines was classified as gassy by the West Virginia Department of Mines. When appellant failed to comply …
Legal Control Of Thermonuclear Energy: The Atomic Energy Act And The Hydrogen Program, John S. Walker
Legal Control Of Thermonuclear Energy: The Atomic Energy Act And The Hydrogen Program, John S. Walker
Michigan Law Review
Criticisms which can be focused on our thermonuclear program arise primarily from human factors and not from past or present legislative silence. Nevertheless, our atomic energy legislation can suitably attempt to maximize the opportunities for achieving thermonuclear objectives and to minimize the chances of misjudgment in administration of the law. It is the special responsibility of lawyers that the law adequately recognize and implement so important a field as thermonuclear energy, or that it fail in these respects. The following discussion approaches atomic energy legislation from the new but necessary perspective of the thermonuclear program.
Federal Control Of Health And Safety Standards In Peacetime Private Atomic Energy Activities, Samuel D. Estep
Federal Control Of Health And Safety Standards In Peacetime Private Atomic Energy Activities, Samuel D. Estep
Michigan Law Review
This article is directed to the question of the power of Congress to provide for such regulation of those who handle radioactive materials in private industry and not to the policy question of whether Congress ought to attempt such regulation.
Corporations-Voluntary Reorganization Under The Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935-Valuation Of Stock Option Warrant, William H. Bates
Corporations-Voluntary Reorganization Under The Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935-Valuation Of Stock Option Warrant, William H. Bates
Michigan Law Review
Appellant corporation submitted a voluntary reorganization plan to the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to sections II(h)(2) and II(e) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. The plan consisted of two parts. The first proposed consolidation of three of the appellant's subsidiaries into a newly formed operational company. The second part provided for dissolution of the appellant corporation, with the holders of securities therein being issued stock in the new corporation to the extent of the value of their interest in the appellant corporation. All the security holders of appellant were allowed participation in the securities of the …
Competitive Operation Of Municipally And Privately Owned Utilities, Charles M. Kneier
Competitive Operation Of Municipally And Privately Owned Utilities, Charles M. Kneier
Michigan Law Review
Public utility services for cities are usually provided on the principle of regulated monopoly. It has been found that by the very nature of the utility business, better service can be had and at cheaper rates by the use of one supplier rather than by the use of competing plants: This one plant having a monopoly of the business may be either privately or municipally owned. If the service is furnished by a privately owned utility, regulation is usually by a state commission, but in a few states regulation is still largely by the city in which the company operates. …
Newman And Miller: The Control Of Atomic Energy, Michigan Law Review
Newman And Miller: The Control Of Atomic Energy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY. By James R. Newman and Byron S. Miller.
Integration Under Section 10(C) Of The Public Utility Holding Company Act, Robert F. Ritchie
Integration Under Section 10(C) Of The Public Utility Holding Company Act, Robert F. Ritchie
Michigan Law Review
Section 10(c) has been invoked many times since 1935, and the developments under this section have foreshadowed the progress of integration under 11(b) (1). It is the purpose of this article to examine the nature of the requirements of section 10(c), and to indicate the extent of their effectiveness in accomplishing the integrational objectives of the act.
Public Utilities - Federal Power Commission- Just And Reasonable Rate - Rate Base - Going Value - Original Investment As Amortization Base, Michigan Law Review
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 …
Public Utilities - Methods Of Valuation - Prudent Investment As The Sole Method, Jay W. Sorge
Public Utilities - Methods Of Valuation - Prudent Investment As The Sole Method, Jay W. Sorge
Michigan Law Review
The state board of railroad commissioners, in reducing the rates of the plaintiff utility, adopted a valuation based on the "'prudent investment" theory, claiming that under a statute of the state such method of valuation had to be used. Plaintiff urged that valuation should have been measured by reproduction cost minus depreciation. Held, valuation by the commission was improper, since the statute did not authorize the use of the "prudent investment" theory as the sole standard. Northern States Power Co. v. Board of Railroad Commissioners, (N. D. 1941) 298 N. W. 423.
Public Utilities - Depreciation Reserve As An Element Of Fair Value In Ascertaining Rate Base, David N. Mills
Public Utilities - Depreciation Reserve As An Element Of Fair Value In Ascertaining Rate Base, David N. Mills
Michigan Law Review
The New Hampshire Public Service Commission valued the property of a water works company at $450,000 and fixed a rate by using this figure as a base. Before allowance for depreciation, the reproduction cost was estimated to be $660,000 and the original cost was $485,000. Both parties agreed that the amount in the utility's depreciation reserve, twenty-one per cent of cost, was a reasonable figure for depreciation, which the commission deducted from the valuation. On appeal by the company, held, while it was proper to deduct depreciation at twenty-one per cent nonetheless reserve for depreciation is an "asset" which …
Federal Courts - Conflict Between The Federal Declaratory Judgments Act And The Johnson Act, Spencer E. Irons
Federal Courts - Conflict Between The Federal Declaratory Judgments Act And The Johnson Act, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff gas company contracted with defendant city to furnish gas from a certain field at rates fixed by ordinance. Plaintiff reserved the right, when this field became insufficient, to furnish gas from other fields at rates to be adjusted in accordance with the increased cost. In a suit in the federal district court for a declaratory judgment, plaintiff sought a determination that the local field had become insufficient, and that it was necessary to furnish gas from other fields. Plaintiff alleged that defendant city refused to recognize the changed conditions and insisted that plaintiff continue to furnish gas at the …