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SOUTHWEST. BELL TEL. CO. v. PUBLIC UTIL. COM'N

No. 13471.

618 S.W.2d 130 (1981)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellant, v. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS, et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry K. Bishop, David C. Duggins, Clark, Thomas, Winters & Shapiro, Austin, for appellant.

Mark White, Atty. Gen., Stuart Fryer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for Public Utility Commission.

Earnest Casstevens, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, for Texas Daily Newspaper Association.

Samuel D. McDaniel, Don W. Kothmann, McDaniel & Travis, Austin, for Tandy Corp.

Dick Terrell Brown, Andrew S. Viger, McCamish, Ingram, Martin & Brown, Inc., San Antonio, for Datapoint Corp.

POWERS, Justice.

This appeal requires that we determine whether the Public Utility Commission of Texas possesses the statutory power to order summarily that a public utility cease certain conduct pending an evidentiary hearing on the question of whether the Commission has jurisdiction to prohibit the conduct. The issue arose from the following events.

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, appellant, is a public utility regulated by the Commission under the...

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