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A National Policy For The Oil Industry, By Eugene V. Rostow, Philip B. Kurland Apr 1948

A National Policy For The Oil Industry, By Eugene V. Rostow, Philip B. Kurland

Indiana Law Journal

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Tva: A Democratic Method For The Development Of A Region's Resources, Gordon R. Clapp Feb 1948

Tva: A Democratic Method For The Development Of A Region's Resources, Gordon R. Clapp

Vanderbilt Law Review

The world is searching for better and more efficient ways to use natural resources without loss of individual freedom or the destruction or negation of the initiative and energies of individuals. The Tennessee Valley is demonstrating that this can be done; that the people--farmers, workers, businessmen and citizens generally-- can mobilize their energies around the use of a great river and the more productive development of the forests and the minerals and the soil. The people of this Valley have proved that as they do these things agriculture and industry thrive and diversify and the individual finds greater freedom of …

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Book Review. Discrimination By Railroads And Other Public Utilities By I. Beverly Lake, Ivan C. Rutledge Jan 1948

Book Review. Discrimination By Railroads And Other Public Utilities By I. Beverly Lake, Ivan C. Rutledge

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Regulation Of Strip Coal Mining Jan 1948

Regulation Of Strip Coal Mining

Indiana Law Journal

State Regulation Note

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Municipal Ownership Of Utilities In Indiana, Harry T. Ice Oct 1946

Municipal Ownership Of Utilities In Indiana, Harry T. Ice

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Appendix, Mayburn F. Landgraf Oct 1946

Appendix, Mayburn F. Landgraf

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Finality Of The Filed Rate In West Virginia, Thomas P. Hardman Jun 1943

The Finality Of The Filed Rate In West Virginia, Thomas P. Hardman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Integration Under Section 10(C) Of The Public Utility Holding Company Act, Robert F. Ritchie Aug 1942

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.

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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 …

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Public Utilities - Methods Of Valuation - Prudent Investment As The Sole Method, Jay W. Sorge Feb 1942

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.

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Public Utilities - Depreciation Reserve As An Element Of Fair Value In Ascertaining Rate Base, David N. Mills Jan 1942

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 …

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Federal Courts - Conflict Between The Federal Declaratory Judgments Act And The Johnson Act, Spencer E. Irons Nov 1941

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 …

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Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively Nov 1941

Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively

Michigan Law Review

In 1935, the Attorney General brought a suit in equity to enforce the antitrust laws, charging Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation and its controlled instrumentality, Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corporation, and individual defendants, with having conspired for the benefit of Columbia Gas to shut out operation in the Indiana-Ohio-Michigan area by the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, which had built a natural-gas pipe line from the Texas fields to the border of Indiana. Panhandle was an offspring of Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company, or Mokan, which at the time of the suit owned half its stock and half its junior debt. …

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The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Iv. Rate Regulation, C. A. Peairs Jun 1941

The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Iv. Rate Regulation, C. A. Peairs

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Jurisdiction Of The Securities And Exchange Commission, Robert Kneeland Jun 1941

Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Jurisdiction Of The Securities And Exchange Commission, Robert Kneeland

Michigan Law Review

In 1935 the International Paper and Power Company filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to secure permanent exemption from the provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. While this application was pending, the company formed a plan for recapitalization of its stock, and applied to the commission for an order validating the plan. The report of the commission on this plan was approved by the requisite number of shareholders of the company, whereupon the commission entered an order purporting to exempt from the provisions of the act the stock and the warrants for stock …

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Federal Power Act - Jurisdiction And Functions Of The Federal Power Commission - Constitutional Limitations, Robert P. Kneeland, Stark Ritchie Apr 1941

Federal Power Act - Jurisdiction And Functions Of The Federal Power Commission - Constitutional Limitations, Robert P. Kneeland, Stark Ritchie

Michigan Law Review

Before December 16, 1940, John Smith could look complacently on the muddy creek flowing through his pasture, secure in the knowledge that the right to use the waters in that stream was his, free from any outside interference, so long as he had due regard for the rights of his neighbors. Now, however, John Smith would do well to examine the myriad regulations and provisions of the federal statutes before damming that creek to store up water for his cows during the dry season. It is entirely possible that his muddy creek would now be considered a "navigable" stream in …

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Measures Of Land Value For Utility Regulation, Lrston R. Barnes Nov 1940

Measures Of Land Value For Utility Regulation, Lrston R. Barnes

Michigan Law Review

The appraisal of the land of utility corporations presents problems that are not encountered in the valuation of other utility properties. The basic principles and methods of appraisal applicable to other properties are considered inappropriate for the valuation of lands, and certain inconsistencies between the treatment of land and other properties suggest embarrassing questions as to the principles which should guide the regulation of utility rates. Two concrete problems may serve to provide orientation for the discussion which follows: What elements of cost imposed on utilities in the acquisition of real estate are entitled to consideration in establishing rates? To …

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Public Utilities - Municipal Corporations - Power Of Municipal Corporations To Regulate Public Utility Rates - Finality Of Such Regulation, John S. Pennell Nov 1940

Public Utilities - Municipal Corporations - Power Of Municipal Corporations To Regulate Public Utility Rates - Finality Of Such Regulation, John S. Pennell

Michigan Law Review

Since the decision in the case of Munn v. Illinois it has been settled that where property is devoted to a public use and is charged with a public interest, the state may prescribe reasonable rates for such public service. However, the question then arises as to the manner in which the state may prescribe these rates, through what agencies it may act, and the effect on the total picture of rate regulation within a state after there has been action by one of the proper agencies. The answers to these questions depend to a large extent upon the particular …

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Public Utilities - Due Process - Validity Of Order Reducing Intrastate Telephone Rates To Conform To Interstate Rates, Michigan Law Review Jun 1940

Public Utilities - Due Process - Validity Of Order Reducing Intrastate Telephone Rates To Conform To Interstate Rates, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, by order of March 15, 1938, required appellant, the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, to reduce its intrastate toll rates for distances exceeding thirty-six miles so as to conform to rates charged by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for comparable distances for interstate services. After full hearing the commission based its order upon .findings that the interstate American Company offered at substantially lower rates the very same service, with identical facilities, accorded by its intrastate subsidiary, plus the additional service furnished by a connecting company, and that hence the higher intrastate rates constituted an …

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The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Ii. Jurisdiction And Powers, C. A. Peairs Jun 1940

The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Ii. Jurisdiction And Powers, C. A. Peairs

West Virginia Law Review

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The West Virginia Public Service Commission: I. Historical Survey; Organization And Personnel, C. A. Peairs Jr. Apr 1940

The West Virginia Public Service Commission: I. Historical Survey; Organization And Personnel, C. A. Peairs Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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Is Utility Regulation Encroaching Upon Management, Francis X. Welch Feb 1940

Is Utility Regulation Encroaching Upon Management, Francis X. Welch

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation: Deduction Of Depreciation For Rate Base Purposes, Robert D. Haun Feb 1940

Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation: Deduction Of Depreciation For Rate Base Purposes, Robert D. Haun

Michigan Law Review

When considering depreciation for rate base purposes the courts and the commissions speak of accrued depreciation, existing depreciation, actual depreciation, complete depreciation, realized depreciation, incomplete depreciation, and observed depreciation. Accrued, existing and actual depreciation all have the same meaning.

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Public Utilities - Consumers' Actions To Enforce Performance Of Public Duties, Edmund R. Blaske Feb 1940

Public Utilities - Consumers' Actions To Enforce Performance Of Public Duties, Edmund R. Blaske

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner, suing on behalf of himself and ten thousand other consumers, sought to compel the defendant gas company to furnish gas in accordance with the terms of a rate ordinance. The defendant challenged the petitioner's right to sue, on the ground that statutes had conferred this right upon the city solicitor. Held, the statutes were not intended to abrogate a consumer's common-law right to compel a utility company to perform its public duty. Maxwell v. Ohio Fuel Gas Co., 61 Ohio App. 394, 22 N. E. (2d) 639 (1939).

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Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation, Robert D. Haun Dec 1939

Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation, Robert D. Haun

Michigan Law Review

Depreciation is a matter of valuation and of the determination of the cost of rendering public service. It is only incidentally related to replacements, and accounting for depreciation will not necessarily provide for replacements. Since depreciation does have to do primarily with valuation and determination of the cost of rendering service, and since capital devoted to public utility use is subject to regulation, it would seem that consistency in principles is not only desirable but attainable. It is the purpose of this article to examine the cases decided by the courts and by the regulatory commissions of the various jurisdictions …

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Public Utilities - Rate Regulation - Validity Of Temporary Rate Order, Thomas K. Fisher Nov 1939

Public Utilities - Rate Regulation - Validity Of Temporary Rate Order, Thomas K. Fisher

Michigan Law Review

Of interest to students of public utility rate regulation will be the case of Driscoll v. Edison Light & Power Co. in which the United States Supreme Court side-stepped a reconsideration of the fair value rule as announced in Smyth v. Ames, and a determination of the constitutionality of temporary rates based on the prudent investment theory.

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Wanted: A New Definition Of The Rate Base, Paul G. Kauper Jun 1939

Wanted: A New Definition Of The Rate Base, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

Public utility problems today have a conspicuous place on the stage of national life. The New Deal's imposing yardstick: program and its policy of encouraging municipal ownership and operation of utility services by means of P.W.A. grants have focused attention chiefly on the issue of public versus private ownership. However, there are indications that a truce between the federal agencies and the private utilities is at hand and that, in consideration of the undertaking on the part of the private utilities to finance capital improvements and additions on a large scale and thereby contribute to general economic improvement, the New …

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The Hodges Case And Beyond, Robert T. Donley Jun 1939

The Hodges Case And Beyond, Robert T. Donley

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A Final Word On The Doctrine Of The Hodges Case, Kenneth C. Davis Jun 1939

A Final Word On The Doctrine Of The Hodges Case, Kenneth C. Davis

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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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 …

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