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PEOPLES NATURAL GAS CO. v. MINNESOTA P.U.C.

No. C6-83-1684.

369 N.W.2d 530 (1985)

PEOPLES NATURAL GAS COMPANY, A DIVISION OF INTER-NORTH, INC., petitioner, Relator, v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Respondent, Erie Mining Company, Hibbing Taconite Joint Venture, and The Hanna Mining Company, intervenors, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer B. Trousdale, St. Paul, Phillip Crowley, Peoples Natural Gas Co., Law Dept., Council Bluffs, Iowa, for Peoples Nat. Gas Co.

Karl Sonneman, Allen E. Giles, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for Minnesota Public Utilities Com'n.

Robert S. Lee, Minneapolis, for Erie and Hibbing Min. Co.

Lawrence G. Acker, Washington, D.C., for Hanna Min. Co.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

SIMONETT, Justice.

Does the Public Utilities Commission have implied authority to order a public utility to refund charges collected under rates that the Commission had previously declared discriminatory? We hold it does not and reverse the contrary ruling of the Court of Appeals.

Appellant Peoples Natural Gas Company (hereinafter either Peoples or the utility) sells natural gas to customers in the southeastern, east central, and northwestern parts of this...

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