Publication Date: 2018-10-03
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law
Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC; Henry Weissmann, Fred A. Rowley, Jr., Mark R. Yohalem, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan D. Schiller, David A. Barrett, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, New York; Stuart H. Singer, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
for defendant: For Amici Curiae Energy Economists, in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC.
For amici curiae American Petroleum Institute, Natural Gas Supply Association in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Ben Norris, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC; Dena Wiggins, Natural Gas Supply Association, Washington, DC.
For Amicus Curiae Independent Market Monitor for PJM, in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Jeffrey W. Mayes, General Counsel, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, Eagleville, Pennsylvania
For Defendants‐Appellees: Peter J. Hopkins, Jeffrey A. Schwarz, Amber L. Martin, on the brief, Scott H. Strauss, Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, Washington, DC; Paul Agresta, General Counsel, John Sipos, Deputy General Counsel, John C. Graham, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Albany, New York.
For Intervenors‐Defendants‐Appellees: David W. DeBruin, Zachary C. Schauf, William K. Dreher, on the brief, Matthew E. Price, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC.
For Amici Curiae Electricity Regulation Scholars in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Ari Peskoe, Harvard Law School Environmental Policy Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts
For Amicus Curiae Institute for Policy Integrity, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Bethany A. Davis Noll, Avi Zevin, on the brief, Richard L. Revesz, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, New York, New York
For Amici Curiae Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Miles Farmer, on the brief, Thomas Zimpleman, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC; Michael Panfil, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC
For Amicus Curiae Nuclear Energy Institute, in support of Defendants‐Appellants: Ellen C. Ginsberg, on the brief, Jonathan M. Rund, Nuclear Energy Institute, Washington, DC
For amici curiae States of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Seth A. Hollander, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, Clare E. Kindall, Assistant Attorney General, for George Jepsen, Attorney General of Connecticut, New Britain, Connecticut; M. Elaine Meckenstock, Deputy Attorney General: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sally Magnani, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Melinda Piling, Deputy Attorney General, Myung J. Park, Deputy Attorney General, Dennis L. Beck, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, Oakland, California
For Amici Curiae Independent Economists, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Samuel T. Walsh, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, Washington, DC
For Amicus Curiae American Wind Energy Association, in support of neither party: Gene Grace, on the brief, Julia Dreyer, American Wind Energy Ass
Case Number: 17-2654-cv
N.Y.'s ZEC Program for Nuclear Power Plants Not 'Field','Conflict' Preempted by FERC