HARTFORD v. POWERS


183 Conn. 76 (1981)

CITY OF HARTFORD ET AL. v. ARTHUR POWERS, COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released February 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan T. Pearlman and Arnold K. Shimelman, assistant attorneys general, with whom, on the brief, were Carl R. Ajello, attorney general, and William A. McQueeney, assistant attorney general, for the appellant (defendant).

Alexander A. Goldfarb, corporation counsel, for the city of Hartford, Dennis L. Pieragostini, assistant corporation counsel, and James F. Meehan, special assistant corporation counsel, with whom, on the brief, were James J. Szerejko, assistant corporation counsel, Raymond R. Norko, Judith I. Solomon and Peter Munsing, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

COTTER, C. J., BOGDANSKI, PETERS, HEALEY and PARSKEY, JS.


BOGDANSKI, J.

The defendant, as commissioner of transportation, adopted a schedule of bus fares that resulted in fare increases for the Connecticut Transit Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the state of Connecticut. The hearings on the increased fares, required by the Urban Mass Transit Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1604 (i) (1976), were held in New Haven, Stamford and Hartford. The fares adopted were neither published in the...

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