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Marshall Dennehey

Court Dismisses Claims in Electrocution Death, Citing Shotgun Pleading and Immunity for Decedent’s Employer

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Comer v. American Transmission Systems, Inc., Civil Action No. 23-1464, 2025 WL 1530750 (W.D. Pa. May 29, 2025) - Carlos Melendez was working on a “transmission tower painting crew” for one of several named defendants when he...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Federal Court Finds Public Service Providers Do Not Qualify as Debt Collectors Under FDCPA

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A federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma recently granted the motions of several public entities to dismiss the amended complaint of a pro se plaintiff who brought claims...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cryptocurrency Miners I“rate” At Energy Rate Decision

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A Washington state federal court recently addressed claims relating to rates that cryptocurrency mining companies pay for electricity in Grant County, Washington. The court rejected all of the miner’s legal claims. The...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Patronage capital update

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The federal courts of appeals have generally recognized that electric cooperatives can retire patronage capital to their members through means other than annual cash payments. For example, the US Court of Appeals for the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - July 2018 #3

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Russian Hackers Penetrated Networks of U.S. Electric Utilities - "Russian hackers gained access to the networks of U.S. electric utilities last year, which could have allowed them to cause blackouts, according to federal...more

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Patronage capital case dismissed

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Pennsylvania’s REA Energy Cooperative, Inc. obtained dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit last year, a decision that was recently confirmed by the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Lawsuit Challenging Local Authority Over Right of Way Dismissed - Partner Joseph Van Eaton Represents City in Small Cell Placement...

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Best Best & Krieger LLP Partner Joseph Van Eaton and co-counsel Kristen Wilson, city attorney for Rye, New York, filed a successful motion for the City of Rye that resulted in a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging local...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

Another Court Upholds a State Generation Program and Dismisses Challenges to Illinois’ Nuclear Subsidies

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On July 14, 2017, and several weeks after the Second Circuit rejected challenges to Connecticut’s renewable energy procurement process and renewable energy credit program (see Allco Fin. Ltd. v. Robert J. Klee (Docket Nos....more

BakerHostetler

Class Action Disgorgement Case Dismissed Against PG&E as Remedy Sought Would Interfere with Filed Rates

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Companies in regulated markets, such as insurance and energy, are increasing litigating issues surrounding the “filed rate doctrine,” or in other words, whether they can be sued in a class action where the remedy sought...more

Cozen O'Connor

Fifth Circuit Ruling Relies on Filed Rate Doctrine to Dismiss Claims Against Natural Gas Company

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In July 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a ruling in which it relied upon the filed rate doctrine to dismiss a claim against a federally regulated natural gas company. In Medco Energi US, LLC v. Sea...more

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