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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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Thursday, March 04 2021

Despite the melting of the ice and snow in Texas, a big chill still exists for a Houston area woman who has filed a class action lawsuit against her electric service provider after her rate jumped from roughly $225 per month to over $9000 for six days in February.

Lisa Khoury is suing Griddy, the provider she has contracted with to pay a flat $10 per month plus the wholesale rate for electricity. Khoury said she had to place a stop-payment order on her bank account after repeated failed attempts to get answers from Griddy to the daily withdrawals from February 13 to February 19 that shot up to $9,340.

“At this point we don’t know how many people might be affected, but there are likely thousands of customers who’ve received these outrageous bills,” says Derek Potts of the Potts Law Firm in Houston, who represents Ms. Khoury. “A class action will be the most efficient and effective way for Griddy’s customers to come together and fight this predatory pricing.”

The lawsuit seeks more than $1 billion from Griddy for allegedly violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

Griddy responded in a statement that the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) directed ERCOT to set wholesale pricing at $9/kWh, roughly 300 times higher than normal wholesale rates. Although the measure was supposed to be temporary, according to news reports it was left in place even after millions got their power back.

A PUCT investigation is underway into “indexed” electricity plans like Griddy’s.

Source: kron4.com

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