F.T.C. v. EQUITABLE RESOURCES, INC.

No. 07cv0490.

512 F.Supp.2d 361 (2007)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. EQUITABLE RESOURCES, INC, Dominion Resources, Inc., Consolidated Natural Gas Company, the Peoples Natural Gas Company, Defendants, and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (through its Attorney General), Amicus Curiae.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

May 14, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Telpner, Patricia V. Galvan, Michael H. Knight, Phillip L. Broyles, Thomas H. Brock, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Michael J. Bloom, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, Washington, DC, Jessica Lieber Smolar, United States Attorney's Office, Pittsburgh, PA, for Plaintiff.

Christopher T. Leahy, George S. Cary, Steven J. Kaiser, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC, P. Gavin Eastgate, Reed Smith, Gordon W. Schmidt, Leonard J. Marsico, McGuire Woods, Pittsburgh, PA, Howard Feller, J. Brent Justus, McGuire Woods, Richmond, VA, for Defendants.

Bohdan R. Pankiw, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, James A. Donahue, III, Joseph S. Betsko, Jennifer A. Thomson, Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Amicus Curiae.


MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS (DOC. NO. 18)

SCHWAB, District Judge.

Defendants are public utilities which operate under the authority and regulation of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ("PUC"), pursuant to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Code (66 Pa.C.S. §§ 101-3315), who seek to dismiss the Complaint (doe. no. 1) of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"). The FTC in its Complaint

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