PACIFIC TEL. & TEL. CO. v. PUBLIC UTIL. COM.

Docket Nos. S.F. 21788, 21793, 21794.

62 Cal.2d 634 (1965)

401 P.2d 353

44 Cal. Rptr. 1

THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Respondents; UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES, Real Party in Interest. CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Respondents. EDWARD L. BLINCOE, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent; THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Real Party in Interest. (Consolidated Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 28, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Eugene M. Prince, John A. Sutro, Francis N. Marshall, Arthur T. George, G.H. Eckhardt, Jr., and James B. Atkin for Petitioner in S.F. No. 21788 and for Real Party in Interest in S.F. No. 21794.

Bacigalupi, Elkus & Salinger, Claude N. Rosenberg, Charles de Y. Elkus, Jr., and Warren A. Palmer for Petitioner in S.F. No. 21793 and as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner in S.F. No. 21788.

Edward L. Blincoe, in pro. per., for Petitioner in S.F. No. 21794.

O'Melveny & Myers, Harry L. Dunn, Albert M. Hart, Best, Best & Krieger, James H. Krieger, John Robert Jones, Musick, Peeler & Garrett, James E. Ludlam, Peter C. Bradford, Carl M. Franklin, Richard H. Peterson, Frederick T. Searls, John C. Morrissey, William L. Cole, Sherman Chickering, Bruce M. Casey, Jr., C. Hayden Ames, Charles F. Lipman, Chickering & Gregory, Rollin E. Woodbury, Robert J. Cahall, John Ormasa, Milford Springer, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, Trautman & Enersen, Burnham Enersen, Charles E. Goulden, H. Harold Leavey, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Robert N. Lowry as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner in S.F. No. 21788.

Richard E. Tuttle, Roderick B. Cassidy, J. Thomason Phelps, William R. Roche, William N. Foley, Catherine D. McAndrew and Sandra H. Cox for Respondents.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Charles Sullivan, Deputy City Attorney, Thomas M. O'Connor, City Attorney (San Francisco), Orville I. Wright, Deputy City Attorney, Edward T. Butler, City Attorney (San Diego) and Edwin L. Miller, Jr., Assistant City Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

John W. Douglas, Assistant Attorney General (United States), Cecil F. Poole, United States Attorney (San Francisco), Morton Hollander, David L. Rose and Edward Berlin for Real Party in Interest in S.F. No. 21788.


BURKE, J.

On July 26, 1962, respondent Public Utilities Commission of the State of California (commission) on its own motion initiated a general investigation of the rates, charges and services of petitioner The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (Pacific). Extended hearings were held, and in June 1964 the commission issued its decision No. 67369 ordering that Pacific's intrastate rate of return and its rates be reduced...

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