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PUBLIC UTILITY v. DYNEGY POWER MARKETING

No. 03-55191.

384 F.3d 756 (2004)

PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY, a municipal corporation in the State of Washington, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DYNEGY POWER MARKETING, INC.; Reliant Energy Services, Inc.; Sempra Energy Trading Corp.; Sempra Energy Resources; Mirant Corporation; William Energy Marketing & Trading Company; Powerex Corporation; XCEL Energy, Inc.; NRG Energy, Inc.; Cabrillo Power I, LLC; Cabrillo Power II, LLC; El Segundo Power LLC; Long Beach Generation, LLC; PG & E Energy Trading Holding Corporation; Duke Energy Trading and Marketing LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve W. Berman and Sean R. Matt, Hagens Berman LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Terry J. Houlihan and Nora Cregan, Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, Joel B. Kleinman, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, D.C., John M. Grenfell, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Peter H. Benzian, Latham & Watkins LLP, Jeffrey M. Shohet, Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, LLP, San Diego, CA, Theodore Spanos, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Bryan A. Merryman, White & Case LLP, Los Angeles, CA, J. Clifford Gunter, III, and Andrew Edison, Bracewell & Patterson LLP, Houston, TX, Douglas M. Butz, Butz Dunn Desantis & Bingham, San Diego, CA, Carlton A. Varner, Timothy B. Taylor, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Colin A. Yost, Asssistant Attorney General — Oregon, Salem, OR, and Ken Alex, Deputy Attorney General — California, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:

This litigation arises out of the California Energy Crisis of 2000-01, when shortages of power and high electricity prices caused blackouts and general turmoil in the electricity markets of the west coast. In this case, Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington ("Snohomish"), a utility providing electricity to consumers in Washington state, has sued various generators and traders of wholesale electricity for violations of...

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