MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION of the State of Colorado et al., Defendants-Appellants,
Mountain Plains Congress of Senior Organizations, Intervenor-Appellant,
Citizens Utilities Company et al., Defendants-Appellees. and
COLORADO ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY, Petitioner-Appellee,
v.
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION of the State of Colorado et al., Respondents-Appellants,
Mountain Plains Congress of Senior Organizations, Intervenor-Appellant,
Citizens Utilities Company et al., Respondents-Appellees.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 29, 1979.
Rehearing Denied February 26, 1979.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kea L. Bardeen, James G. Watt, Denver, for plaintiff-appellee, Mountain States Legal Foundation.
J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Tucker K. Trautman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants-appellants, Public Utilities Com'n of the State of Colo., Edwin R. Lundborg, Edythe S. Miller and Sanders G. Arnold, Com'rs.
Irvin M. Kent, Denver, for intervenor-appellant, Mountain Plains Congress of Senior Organizations.
Walker D. Miller, Greeley, Robert T. James, Colorado Springs, John J. Conway, Denver, for amicus curiae, The Colorado Rural Elec. Ass'n.
John Fleming Kelly, James L. White, Jeffrey C. Pond, B. Lynn Winmill, Holland & Hart, Denver, for petitioner-appellee, Colo. Ass'n of Commerce & Industry.
John R. Barry, Denver, for Iowa Elec. Light & Power Co.
T. N. Wright, Omaha, Neb., Thomas C. Stifler, Colorado Springs, A. R. Madigan, Omaha, Neb., for Peoples Natural Gas, Division of Northern Natural Gas Co.
Jones, Meiklejohn, Kehl & Lyons, Arthur R. Hauver, Denver, for Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas.
Lefferdink, Lefferdink & Stoval, John J. Lefferdink, Lamar, for Eastern Colo. Utility Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.
HODGES, Chief Justice.
Plaintiffs-appellees, Mountain States Legal Foundation and Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, commenced separate actions in the trial court challenging Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decisions which established a reduced gas rate for low-income elderly and low-income disabled persons. The trial court entered a judgment which set aside these decisions. It held that the adoption of this...
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