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182559P.pdf   03/25/2020  LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC  v.  Katie Sieben
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2559
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Constitutional law. The provision in Minn. Stat. Sec. 
   216B.246, subdiv. 2, which grants incumbent electric transmission owners 
   the right of first refusal to construct, own and maintain electric 
   transmission lines that connect to their existing facilities does not 
   violate the dormant Commerce Clause; the law is not facially 
   discriminatory and has neither a discriminatory purpose nor a 
   discriminatory effect; the court cannot say the burden imposed by the law 
   is clearly excessive in relation to Minnesota's legitimate state interests 
   in regulating its electric industry and maintaining the status quo, and 
   the district court did not err in dismissing plaintiff's undue-burden 
   claim.