The Georgia Supreme Court has denied a request by Sawnee EMC to take up and consider a final appeal in a long-running lawsuit over the right to serve an electric vehicle (EV) charging station.
The case arose from Georgia...more
3/24/2025
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Appeals ,
Charging Stations ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Energy Sector ,
Georgia ,
Public Utility ,
Regulation ,
Renewable Energy ,
State and Local Government ,
Utilities Sector
The Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed Georgia Power Company’s “grandfather” rights to provide electric service to a manufacturing/warehouse facility that had been expanded and renovated over the years, but not...more
The Tenth Circuit has recently joined its sister circuits, the Fourth Circuit and Ninth Circuit, in finding that federal courts do not have subject-matter jurisdiction over state-law nuisance claims. A Colorado climate-change...more
The federal courts of appeals have generally recognized that electric cooperatives can retire patronage capital to their members through means other than annual cash payments. For example, the US Court of Appeals for the...more
10/19/2018
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Breach of Contract ,
Bylaws ,
Dismissals ,
Electric Cooperative ,
Federal Funding ,
Jurisdiction ,
Patronage Capital ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Removal ,
Utilities Sector
The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN), a Durham, North Carolina based activist group, has filed an appeal of a North Carolina Court of Appeals decision upholding the North Carolina Utilities...more