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AMERICAN ELEC. POWER CO., INC. v. CONNECTICUT

No. 10-174.

131 S.Ct. 2527 (2011)

564 U.S. 410

180 L.Ed.2d 435

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. CONNECTICUT et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 20, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter D. Keisler , Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Neal Kumar Katyal , for Respondent Tennessee Valley Authority, supporting the Petitioners.

Barbara D. Underwood , New York, NY, for Respondents Connecticut, et al.

F. William Brownell , Norman W. Fichthorn , Allison D. Wood , Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, D.C., Shawn Patrick Regan , Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner Southern Company.

Peter D. Keisler , Carter G. Phillips , David T. Buente Jr. , Roger R. Martella Jr. , Quin M. Sorenson , James W. Coleman , Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C., Martin H. Redish , Chicago, Illinois, for Petitioners.

Donald B. Ayer , Kevin P. Holewinski , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., Thomas E. Fennell , Michael L. Rice , Jones Day, Dallas, Texas, for Petitioner Xcel Energy Inc.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Acting Solicitor General, Washington, D.C., for the Tennessee Valley Authority as Respondent Supporting Petitioners.

Michael K. Kellogg , Gregory G. Rapawy , Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., Matthew F. Pawa , Newton Centre, MA, David D. Doniger , Gerald Goldman , Washington, D.C., for Respondents Open Space Institute, Inc., Open Space Conservancy, Inc., and Audubon Society of New Hampshire.

Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General of New York, Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Benjamin N. Gutman , Deputy Solicitor General, Monica Wagner , Assistant Solicitor General, Michael J. Myers , Morgan A. Costello , Robert Rosenthal , Assistant Attorneys General, New York, NY, George Jepsen , Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, Oakland, CA, Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Peter F. Kilmartin , Attorney General of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, William H. Sorrell , Attorney General of Vermont, Montpelier, VT, Michael A. Cardozo , New York, NY, for Respondents Connecticut, New York, California, Iowa, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the City of New York.

Justice GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court.

We address in this opinion the question whether the plaintiffs (several States, the city of New York, and three private land trusts) can maintain federal common law public nuisance claims against carbon-dioxide emitters (four private power companies and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority). As relief, the plaintiffs ask for a decree setting carbon-dioxide emissions for each defendant at an initial cap, to be...

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