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NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 85-3654.

798 F.2d 858 (1986)

NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, the Council for the City of New Orleans, Sidney J. Barthelemy, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew P. Carter, J. Wayne Anderson, W. Glenn Burns, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jerome M. Feit, A. Karen Hill, F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., for amicus F.E.R.C.

Herschel L. Abbott, Jr., David G. Radlauer, Edward H. Bergin, R. Lewis McHenry, H. Mark Adams, Eric J. Mayer, W.D. Meriwether, Jr., Vice President & Gen. Counsel, Middle So., New Orleans, La., Louis H. Willenken, Reid & Priest, New York City, for amicus Middle South.

Clinton A. Vince, Washington, D.C., Thomas Milliner, Bruce Naccari, Beverly Zervigon, Salvador Anzelmo, City Atty., Okla Jones, II, New Orleans, La., Berhardt K. Wruble, Glen L. Ortman, Paul E. Nordstrom, Washington, D.C., for City of New Orleans.

Hiram C. Eastland, Jr., Robert H. Harper, Jackson, Miss., for amicus Miss. Public Service Com'n.

Richard M. Troy, Asst. Atty. Gen., La. Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., for amicus State of La.

Frank Spencer, Jackson, Miss., Felshaw King, President, Nat. Ass'n of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Clearfield, Utah, for amicus Nat. Ass'n of State Utility.

Before RANDALL and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HINOJOSA, District Judge.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

After reconsidering our opinion in New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. The City of New Orleans, 782 F.2d 1236 (5th Cir.1986), we have decided to withdraw Part IV of our opinion, and substitute in its place the following:

IV.

The district court concluded that the jurisprudential doctrine of abstention barred adjudication of NOPSI's request for relief from the Council's regulatory authority...

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