ST. PAUL AREA C. OF C. v. MINN. P. S. COM'N

Nos. 47031, 47046, 47061 and 47126.

251 N.W.2d 350 (1977)

ST. PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, petitioner, Respondent, v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Appellant, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, intervenor, Appellant, City of St. Paul, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 25, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Jerome L. Getz, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for Minn. Public Service Com'n.

Elliot Rothenberg, Minneapolis, for MPIRG.

Harriet Lansing, City Atty., St. Paul, Thomas J. Stearns, St. Paul, for City of St. Paul.

O'Connor & Hannan, John J. Sommerville and Nancy F. Fowler, Minneapolis, Richard G. Morgan, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Briggs & Morgan and Leonard J. Keyes, St. Paul, A. R. Renquist, D. A. Lawrence, Minneapolis, and Samuel L. Hanson, St. Paul, for Northern States Power, seeking affirmance.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard B. Allyn, Sol. Gen., Stephen Shakman, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, seeking reversal.

Jerome Jallo, Asst. City Atty., Minneapolis, for City of Minneapolis, amicus curiae.

Stuart W. Rider, Jr., and Roger R. Roe, Jr., Minneapolis, for St. Regis Paper Co., amicus curiae.

Dwight Wagenius, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for Minn. Energy Agency, amicus curiae.

Harold J. Soderberg and Barbara L. Sims, Minneapolis, for Minneapolis Ass'n of Bldg. Owners & Managers, amicus curiae.

Kenneth P. Griswold, St. Paul, for Liberty Plaza Inc., amicus curiae.

Considered and decided by the court en banc.


SCOTT, Justice.

These are appeals from a judgment of the Ramsey County District Court wherein it modified the allocation of revenue responsibility rates among customer classes as ordered by the Minnesota Public Service Commission under the Public Utilities Act, Minn. St. c. 216B, and imposed a new rate allocation. We reverse.

On January 2, 1975, Northern States Power Company (NSP) filed with the Public Service Commission (commission) an application for a change...

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