On its face it seems like an outrageous invasion of people's privacy.
We look forward to convincing FERC that maintaining the contracts is in the public interest.
We're always considered an island when we're getting reamed at the pump and we question whether we should now be integrated as part of the larger system (when that system is in crisis), ... You can't have it both ways.
We are confident that the trial court will find that the penalty is appropriate and not excessive ... Good faith and RJR are mutually exclusive.
When prices were higher here than elsewhere, we were told that California's market is an island, ... Now, all of a sudden, we're not an island. Those are the questions we're asking.
This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.
To my knowledge, we haven't closed the investigation. We've got another pending case against Edward Jones.
We will be contacting all business entities involved in this incident.
We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to senseless, graphic violence that has no purpose other than to appeal to baser instincts.
We are still figuring out how to deal with that.
probe will be officially closed in short order.
The money we are seeking is the amount we paid in excess of a just and reasonable rate, according to formulas established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Coincidence? Probably not, considering the Bush administration's propensity to formally side with industry in pre-emption litigation,
It seems pretty outrageous. We are still in the preliminary stages of determining ... what criminal and civil laws could be involved. On its face, it appears the conduct poses a substantial privacy and ID-theft problem.
It's not infrequent for local district attorneys to take the lead on fraud investigations. Obviously, that kind of a unit is closer to the community and closer to the problem.
It's beyond money. The power provided under this contract is critical to supply stability. We cannot afford in California to take even one step back to a reliance on the spot market.
Any time we see a tobacco company saying a product is safer than other tobacco products, our antennae go up. We're looking at whether the claims regarding the health effects are factually accurate and backed up by scientific evidence.
The federal government has no authority to prevent California, or any state, from requiring warnings that provide truthful, important information to consumers.
This is a long way from being final.