28 USC 1342 - Rate orders of State agencies

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 1342.

Rate orders of State agencies

The district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the operation of, or compliance with, any order affecting rates chargeable by a public utility and made by a State administrative agency or a rate-making body of a State political subdivision, where:

(1)

Jurisdiction is based solely on diversity of citizenship or repugnance of the order to the Federal Constitution; and,

(2)

The order does not interfere with interstate commerce; and,

(3)

The order has been made after reasonable notice and hearing; and,

(4)

A plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 932.)

cite as: 28 USC 1342