NORTHWESTERN BELL v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE

No. 83-1503.

359 N.W.2d 491 (1984)

NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellee, v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Appellant, Meredith Corporation, United States Department of Defense, and Answer Iowa, Inc., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Stoffregen, Gen. Counsel, Patrick J. Nugent, Deputy Counsel, and William A. Haas, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Des Moines, for appellant.

Donald H. Sitz and David A. Dettmann of Lane & Waterman, Davenport, and W.K. Schaphorst and Robert H. Jackson, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered en banc.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves issues which arose in a proceeding to set intrastate rates of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company (Bell) for a period prior to divestiture of Bell by American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT & T). During that period Bell was a subsidiary corporation of AT & T. We first briefly describe the statutory regulatory scheme. The applicable statutes are those in the Iowa Code of 1983; our citations are to that Code unless...

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