Court Opinion

ID: 9619442
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:27:52.43896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:40.869379
License: Public Domain

STEWART, Justice
(concurring):
In my view, Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Arkansas Public Service Commission, — U.S. —, 103 S.Ct. 1905, 76 L.Ed.2d 1 (1983), is dispositive of the issue as to whether the PSC may exercise authority over Garkane Power Association *1208in this case. Neither the Rural Electrification Act nor the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution precludes the exercise of that power. I fail to see the pertinence of the Court’s discussion of Public Utilities Commission v. Attleboro Steam & Electric Co., 273 U.S. 83, 47 S.Ct. 294, 71 L.Ed. 54 (1927), and its progeny and the scope of the powers of the Federal Power Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It is the Rural Electrification Act, as the discussion in Arkansas Electric demonstrates, that is relevant and important to the decision in Arkansas Electric.
I concur in the remainder of the Court’s opinion.