CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT CO. v. P. U. C. OF TEXAS

No. 78-2319 Summary Calendar.

592 F.2d 234 (1979)

CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, and West Texas Utilities Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Plaintiffs-Intervenors Appellants, v. The PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS, Defendant-Appellee, Houston Lighting & Power Co. et al., Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 28, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. N. Woolsey, Dyer, Redford, Burnett, Wray & Woolsey, Corpus Christi, Tex., Robert H. Alvis, Wagstaff, Harrell, Pope, Alvis, Dickenson & Erwin, Abilene, Tex., Jefferson D. Giller, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for Central Power & Light Co. and West Texas Utilities Co.

Steven A. Taube, Atty., Howard E. Shapiro, Sol., Federal Energy Regulatory Com'n, Leonard Schaitman, Robert S. Greenspan, Attys., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S. and Federal Energy Regulatory Com'n.

Joe N. Pratt, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Austin, Tex., for Public Utility Com'n of Texas.

E. W. Barnett, Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., Robert J. Hearon, Jr., Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody & Garwood, Austin, Tex., for Houston Lighting & Power Co.

M. D. Sampels, Worsham, Forsythe & Sampels, Dallas, Tex., for Dallas Power & Light Co., Texas Power & Light Co., and Texas Elec. Service Co.

Lawrence S. Smith, Small, Craig & Werkenthin, Austin, Tex., for Lower Colorado River Authority.

Jon C. Wood, Matthews, Nowlin, MacFarlane & Barrett, San Antonio, Tex., for City Public Service Bd. of City of San Antonio.

Before AINSWORTH, GODBOLD and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants Central Power and Light Company (CPL) and West Texas Utilities Company (WTU) are public utility companies engaged in the generation, transmission, and sale of electric power in Texas. Both are subsidiaries of Central and South West Corporation, a public utility holding company with holdings in Texas and Oklahoma. CPL and WTU are members of an interconnected system of electric generation and transmission facilities, the...

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