ILL. TELEPHONE ASS'N v. COMMERCE COM.

No. 48691.

67 Ill.2d 15 (1977)

364 N.E.2d 63

ILLINOIS TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, Appellee, v. THE ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Hercules F. Bolos and Peter A. Fasseas, Special Assistant Attorneys General, and Rodney C. Howard, Mary C. Ubatuba and James R. Sullivan, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellant.

Douglas G. Brown, of Springfield, for appellee.

Joseph M. Wells, Paul E. Goldstein, and James Hinchliff, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company.

Howard Elliott Kilberg, of Chicago, and James Ullman Hamersley, of Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Chicago Area Recycling Group.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE DOOLEY delivered the opinion of the court:

Here we are called upon to decide whether an "association," in the posture of this record, has standing to appeal an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission pursuant to the statute providing for review of Commission orders by the courts (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 111 2/3, par. 72). In 1974 the Illinois Commerce Commission revised certain general orders concerning the credit and...

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