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PACIFIC GAS & ELEC. CO. v. PUBLIC UTIL. COMM'N

No. 84-1044.

475 U.S. 1 (1986)

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Harris argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was Malcolm H. Furbush.

Mark Fogelman argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief for appellee Public Utilities Commission of California were Janice E. Kerr and Hector Anninos. Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Steven L. Mayer, and Frederic D. Woocher filed a brief for appellees Toward Utility Rate Normalization et al.*

JUSTICE POWELL announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE BRENNAN, and JUSTICE O'CONNOR join.

The question in this case is whether the California Public Utilities Commission may require a privately owned utility company to include in its billing envelopes speech of a third party with which the utility disagrees.

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