IOWA PUBLIC SERVICE CO. v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

No. 19281.

407 F.2d 916 (1969)

IOWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, Appellant, v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION; Dick A. Witt, Frank B. Means and Bernard J. Martin, Chairman and Commissioners of the Iowa State Commerce Commission; Arnold E. Aldrich; G. J. Cheney; Floyd E. Dominy; Stewart L. Udall; and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

March 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewie J. Gaul, Sioux City, Iowa, for appellant; Geo. F. Davis, and Jack F. Kinney, Sioux City, Iowa, with him on the brief and reply brief.

Thomas N. Bolton, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee, Iowa State Commerce Commission; Leo J. Steffen, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, with him on the brief.

John C. Eldridge, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Brief of appellees Arnold E. Aldrick, G. J. Cheney, Floyd E. Dominy, Stewart L. Udall, and the United States Bureau of Reclamation was filed by Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander and Daniel Joseph, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and James P. Rielly, U. S. Atty., Des Moines, Iowa.

Before GIBSON and LAY, Circuit Judges, and HARPER, Chief District Judge.


FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Iowa Public Service Company (hereinafter "Company"), sought to restrain the United States government acting through its employees and agents from disposing of electrical power, generated at federal hydroelectric installations constructed as part of a flood control project, to certain Iowa municipalities. It filed a complaint with the Iowa State Commerce Commission (hereinafter "Iowa Commission") alleging the proposed...

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