Appeals

Sanger Greene represents nonprofits, industry groups, and consumer-owned utilities in appellate proceedings.  This work ranges from advising clients on appeal rights to filing and sustaining appeals from start to end, and includes participation in appellate proceedings as an intervenor or amicus.  Our approach is solutions-oriented and responsive to client needs.   Additionally, our work on both administrative law matters and appellate matters provides useful perspective in each context.  In administrative law matters, we are always building, attacking, or defending an agency record with an eye on the possibility for later judicial review; in appellate matters, we are always cognizant of the importance of the underlying decision and record being appealed.  
Representative cases:
  • Represent an association of consumer-owned utilities in Ninth Circuit appeal of a District Court preliminary injunction in an Endangered Species Act case.
  • Represent a consumer-owned utility in Ninth Circuit appeals of Bonneville Power Administration decisions regarding hydroelectric resource.
  • Prepare and file amicus brief in an Oregon Court of Appeals case involving utility wildfire liability on behalf of association of consumer-owned utilities.
  • Prepare and file amicus brief to the Washington Supreme Court case involving an appeal of site certificate issued by Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council on behalf of nonprofit and trade association.
  • Prepare and file amicus brief to the DC Circuit in an appeal of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision involving a hybrid solar-and-storage facility’s power production capacity.
  • Represent nonprofit in an appeal of Oregon Public Utility Commission decision regarding utility progress toward clean energy standards to the Marion County Circuit Court.
  • Prepare and file an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit in a case concerning an appeal of a Montana Public Service Commission interpretation of legally enforceable obligations.
  • Represent an solar electricity generator in an Oregon Court of Appeals challenge to Oregon Public Utility Commission interpretation of its power purchase agreement.
  • Prepare and file amicus brief to the Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court on behalf of a renewable energy nonprofit regarding a utility request for proposals.
  • Represent consumer-owned utility and industrial customer trade associations in different Ninth Circuit appeals involving Bonneville Power Administration Residential Exchange Program.
  • Prepare and file amicus brief in a Ninth Circuit appeal of the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision regarding the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
  • Represent independent power producer organizations in an appeals of an electric utility’s interconnection procedures before the Oregon Court of Appeals and Marion County Circuit Court.

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