Antitrust issues and the restructuring of the power industry

Electricity Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 11-19

  Moritz, Terry F ^a  

^a R   (United States)

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POWER INDUSTRY;

EID: 0033229636     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6190(99)00082-2     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. 1. 16 U.S.C. § 824b.
2. 2. Gulf States Utils. Co. v. FPC, 411 U.S. 747, 758-59, 93 S. Ct. 1870, 1878, 36 L. Ed. 2d 635 (1973).
3. 3. 61 Fed. Reg. 68,595 (Dec. 30, 1996). See also Enova Corp. 79 F.E.R.C. 61, 107 (1997). The Horizontal Merger Guidelines are designed to assist in the determination whether a merger is anticompetitive and violates the antitrust laws.
4. 4. 15 U.S.C. §§ 79i-j.
5. 5. 15 U.S.C. § 79j.
6. 6. See, e.g., Enova, at 107.
7. 7. Joel I. Klein, Making the Transition From Regulation to Competition: Thinking About Merger Policy During the Process Electric Power Restructuring, address at FERC's Distinguished Speaker Series, Jan. 21, 1998.
8. 8. Id.
9. 9. Id.
10. 10. Id.
11. 11. 15 U.S.C. § 2. See also United States v. Grinnell Corp., 384 U.S. 563, 570-71, 86 S. Ct. 1698, 1703-04, 16 L. Ed. 2d 778 (1966); Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. v. Aspen Skiing Co., 738 F. 2d 1509, 1519 (10th Cir. 1984), aff'd, 472 U.S. 585, 105 S. Ct. 2847 (1985).
12. 12. United States v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 351 U.S. 377, 395, 76 S. Ct. 994, 1007, 100 L. Ed. 1264 (1956).
13. 13. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okl. v. NCAA, 707 F. 2d 1147, 1158 (10th Cir. 1983), aff'd, 468 U.S. 85, 104 S. Ct. 2948, 82 L. Ed. 2d 70 (1984).
14. 14. 15 U.S.C. § 2.
15. 15. MCI Communications v. American Tel. & Tel. Co., 708 F. 2d 1081, 1108 (7th Cir. 1983).
16. 16. 410 U.S. 366, 93 S. Ct. 1022, 35 L. Ed. 2d 359 (1973).
17. 17. 410 U.S. at 378.
18. 18. Id.
19. 19. Id. at 373-75.
20. 20. City of Anaheim v. Southern Cal. Edison Co., 955 F. 2d 1373, 1379 (9th Cir. 1992).
21. 21. Id. at 1380.
22. 22. TCA Bldg. Co. v. Northwestern Resources Co., 873 F. Supp. 29, 39 (S.D. Tex. 1995).
23. 23. 955 F. 2d 1361, 1366 (9th Cir. 1992).
24. 24. Id. at 1367.
25. 25. City of Anaheim, 955 F. 2d at 1380. See also TCA Bldg. Co., 873 F. Supp. at 39.
26. 26. 955 F. 2d 1373 (9th Cir. 1992).
27. 27. Id. at 1381.
28. 28. Id.
29. 29. Id. at 1380-81.
30. 30. Id. at 1381.
31. 31. 16 U.S.C. § 824j.
32. 32. 61 Fed. Reg. 21,540 (May 10, 1996).
33. 33. 62 Fed. Reg. 12,274 (Mar. 14, 1997).
34. 34. 571 F. Supp. 1504 (E.D. Cal. 1983).
35. 35. 671 F. 2d 1173 (8th Cir. 1982).
36. 36. 465 F. Supp. 1320 (N.D. Ind. 1979), aff'd in part, vacated in part, 616 F. 2d 976 (7th Cir. 1980).
37. 37. Id.
38. 38. United States v. City of Stillwell, No. CIV 96-196-B (E.D. Okla. final judgment entered Nov. 5, 1998).
39. 39. United States v. Rochester Gas and Elec. Corp., 4 F. Supp. 2d 172 (W.D.N.Y. 1998).
40. 40. Northern Pacific Ry. v. United States, 356 U.S. 1, 5-6, 78 S. Ct. 514, 518, 2 L. Ed. 2d 545 (1958).
41. 41. Jefferson Parish Hosp. Dist. No. 2 v. Hyde, 466 U.S. 2, 104 S. Ct. 1551, 80 L. Ed. 2d 2 (1984).
42. 42. See, e.g., International Salt Co. v. United States, 332 U.S. 392, 398 (1947); NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85, 104 n. 26 (1984).
43. 43. See Fortner Enter., Inc. v. United States Steel Corp., 394 U.S. 495, 89 S. Ct. 1252, 22 L. Ed. 2d 495 (1969).
44. 44. Crossland v. Canteen Corp., 711 F. 2d 714, 722 (5th Cir. 1983).
45. 45. 114 F. 3d 858 (9th Cir. 1997).
46. 46. Id.
47. 47. 15 U.S.C. § 13.
48. 48. Id.
49. 49. 488 F. Supp. 1258, 1280 (S.D. Fla. 1980).
50. 50. Id. at 1281-82.
51. 51. Id. at 1282.
52. 52. 671 F. 2d 1173, 1181-82 (8th Cir. 1982).
53. 53. 467 F. Supp. 763, 774 (D. Del. 1979).
54. 54. Id.
55. 55. Id.
56. 56. Id.
57. 57. Id.
58. 58. 381 U.S. 657, 670, 85 S. Ct. 1585, 14 L. Ed. 2d 626 (1965).
59. 59. Id.