CONSUMERS ORG. FOR FAIR ENERGY v. DEPT. OF PUB. UTIL.


368 Mass. 599 (1975)

335 N.E.2d 341

CONSUMERS ORGANIZATION FOR FAIR ENERGY EQUALITY, INC. & others vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 11, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Young for Consumers Organization for Fair Energy Equality, Inc. & others.

Edward B. Hanify (William G. Meserve & John J. Desmond, III, with him) for Boston Edison Company & another; Robert G. Bleakney, Jr., & Robert V. Cauchon for Brockton Edison Company & another; Philip H.R. Cahill for Massachusetts Electric Company; Franklin M. Hundley for New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company; Robert S. Cummings, Maurice L. Zilber & Richard L. Morningstar, for Western Massachusetts Electric Company, also with him.

Alan K. Posner, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Public Utilities.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

We defer to point 3 of this opinion a consideration of certain procedural objections to the maintenance of the present appeal. If, as we shall conclude, the procedural problems are not serious, then we have to decide on the merits, on reservation and report of a single justice of this court, a petition for appeal under G.L.c. 25, § 5, by Consumers Organization for Fair Energy Equality, Inc. ("COFFEE") and...

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