EL PASO ELEC. CO. v. NEW MEXICO PUBLIC SERV.

No. 15645.

706 P.2d 511 (1985)

103 N.M. 300

EL PASO ELECTRIC COMPANY, New Mexico Electric Service Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Southwestern Public Service Company and Texas-New Mexico Power Company, Petitioners-Appellants, v. NEW MEXICO PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Respondent-Appellee, and New Mexico Attorney General, Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

September 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keleher & McLeod, P.A., Richard B. Cole, Robert H. Clark, Albuquerque, William Royer, El Paso, Tex., Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Donald M. Salazar, Santa Fe, Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Paul J. Kelly, Jr., Santa Fe, for petitioners-appellants.

John F. Meehan, Geoffrey Sloan, Tiane L. Sommer, Joanne Reuter, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for Public Service Com'n.

Paul Bardacke, Atty. Gen., Theodore W. Barudin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for Atty. Gen.


OPINION

FEDERICI, Chief Justice.

El Paso Electric Company and other utility companies (appellants) challenge the validity of the New Mexico Public Service Commission's (PSC's) General Order No. 31 (G.O. 31), which deals with the treatment, for rate-setting purposes, of utility companies' charitable contributions and expenditures for lobbying and advertising. On an earlier appeal this Court ruled on certain procedural aspects of the case and remanded the...

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