Retroactive legal changes
Affirmed Energy v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Affirmed Energy challenges FERC’s approval of a change to rules for wholesale energy-capacity auctions, arguing that it took away an entitlement earned under earlier rules. The D.C.
- What's at stake
- The D.C. Circuit's ruling that FERC's change was not retroactive remains the latest result in Affirmed Energy's challenge.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Circuit ruled that the change was not retroactive, and Affirmed Energy has asked the Supreme Court to review that ruling.
Affirmed Energy's petition asks whether a rule change is retroactive if it removes an entitlement earned through a past act but usable only in the future.
Question presented
Whether, as the Third Circuit held, a legal change is retroactive if it eliminates an entitlement acquired under prior law through a completed past act, even if the entitlement would have been exercised only in the future, or whether, as the D.C. Circuit held, a legal change is retroactive only if it alters the past legal consequences of the completed act.
What happens next
The next step is for the Court to decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument or decision date is scheduled.
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Primary materials from the Court and the parties. Grounded in docket records and cited sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.