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SOUTHERN CAL. GAS CO. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COM.

Docket Nos. S.F. 24603, 24605, 24606.

38 Cal.3d 64 (1985)

695 P.2d 186

211 Cal. Rptr. 99

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Respondent. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Respondent. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

February 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thomas D. Clarke, Peter N. Osborn, David B. Follett, Robert V.R. Dalenberg, James S. Hamasaki, Margaret deB. Brown, Malcolm H. Furbush, Robert Ohlbach, Peter W. Hanschen, Steven F. Greenwald, Robert B. McLennan and A. Kirk McKenzie for Petitioners.

Ronald A. Zumbrun and John H. Findley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Janice E. Kerr, Hector Anninos, Walter H. Kessenick and Anne K. Mester for Respondent.

John C. Lakeland, David B. Roe and Michel Peter Florio as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

We granted review in these consolidated cases to consider challenges by three utilities to certain rules adopted by the Public Utilities Commission in April 1983. The rules at issue set forth procedures for the award of "public participation costs," including attorney and expert witness fees, to deserving intervenors in all the commission's regulatory and rate-making proceedings. (Dec. No. 83-14-017; Cal. Admin...

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