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