IN RE GENERIC INVESTIGATION INTO CABLE TV

No. 15620.

707 P.2d 1155 (1985)

103 N.M. 345

In re GENERIC INVESTIGATION INTO CABLE TELEVISION SERVICES IN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO. LAS CRUCES TV CABLE, Albuquerque Cable Television, Inc., Wentronics, Inc., d/b/a United Cable TV of Gallup, Santa Fe Cablevision Company, d/b/a United Cable of Santa Fe, Appellants, v. NEW MEXICO STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION, Appellee, and Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., General Telephone Company of the southwest, Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc., and Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc., Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

October 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Campbell & Black, Bruce D. Black, Peter N. Ives, Santa Fe, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, David G. Rozzelle, Dan J. Alpert, Washington, D.C., for Las Cruces TV Cable.

Poole, Tinnin & Martin, Robert C. Poole, James R. Scarantino, Albuquerque, Hogan & Hartson, Gardner F. Gillespie, Susan Wing, Richard S. DiSalvo, Washington, D.C., for Albuquerque Cable Television Inc., Wentronics, Inc., and Santa Fe Cable Television Co.

Paul Bardacke, Atty. Gen., R. Michael Barlow, Alex Valdez, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for Corporation Comm.

Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Mary E. McDonald, Daniel A. Najjar, Richard L.C. Virtue, Santa Fe, Cameron R. Graham, NM General Atty. for Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., Albuquerque, for Mountain Bell.

Ward W. Wueste, Jr., General Counsel for Southwest, San Angelo, for General Telephone Co. of the Southwest.

Jones, Gallegos, Snead & Wertheim, James E. Snead, Steven L. Tucker, Santa Fe, for American Petroleum Institute.

Campbell & Black, Bruce D. Black, Peter N. Ives, Santa Fe, Hogan & Hartson, Gardner F. Gillespie, Washington, D.C., for New Mexico Cable Television Assn.

Brenda L. Fox, Carol A. Melton, Michael S. Schooler, David L. Nicoll, Robert St. John Roper, Washington, D.C., Campbell & Black, Bruce D. Black, Peter N. Ives, Santa Fe, for Nat. Cable Television Assn., Inc.


OPINION

FEDERICI, Chief Justice.

This case is before us on removal from the New Mexico State Corporation Commission (Commission) pursuant to N.M. Const. Article XI, Section 7 (Cum.Supp. 1985). The proceeding before the Commission was initiated by Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company (Mountain Bell) to determine whether cable television systems within the State of New Mexico were providing public utility telephone service, or anticipating providing...

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