Court Opinion

ID: 9452125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:30:49.360783+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:04.210715
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ENOCH, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I must respectfully dissent from the majority. It seems to me that we must find some substantial scientific or engineering evidence that the out-of-state energy did in fact flow to the Indiana sales in issue; that the circumstantial evidence on which the Commission and the majority rely is insufficient to justify taking the regulation of the Indiana sales in question out of the hands of the long-established state authority. I am also inclined to agree with Judge Eschbach (Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. v. Federal Power Commission, D.C., N.D., Indiana, 1963, 224 F.Supp. 166, 170) “that the record in the instant case constitutes an alarming example of how a private litigant before an administrative agency may be denied the opportunity to pursue the orderly procedures so vital to our traditional notions of fair play.”
I would reverse the order of the Commission and remand the case with instructions to enter a dismissal for want of jurisdiction.