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MASS. ELECTRIC CO. v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

383 Mass. 675 (1981)

421 N.E.2d 449

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margot Botsford (S. Stephen Rosenfeld with her) for the plaintiff.

Carl Valvo, Assistant Attorney General (Alycia K. Lyons with him) for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The question presented concerns the limits of the power of administrative bodies to establish rules of general application in adjudicatory proceedings. Specifically, the contested proposition is whether the Department of Public Utilities (department) improperly dismissed as patently deficient a rate filing of the Massachusetts Electric Company (company) when the filing complied with all applicable statutes and regulations but contravened

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