MATTER OF MOUNTAIN STATES TEL. AND TEL. CO.

No. 86-134.

745 P.2d 563 (1987)

In the Matter of the Investigation by the Commission of the Directory and Yellow Page Service of the MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Pursuant to Wyoming Statutes and Commission Rules Requiring Commission Authority Prior to any Change in Rates, Service or Change of Ownership of Utility Facilities. The MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Petitioner, v. U S West Direct Company, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WYOMING, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

November 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Hickey, Rooney, Bagley, Hickey, Evans & Statkus, and W. Douglas Hickey, Cheyenne, for petitioner The Mountain States Tel. and Tel. Co.

Nicholas G. Kalokathis, Lathrop & Uchner, P.C., Cheyenne, and Laurie J. Bennett, Aurora, Colorado, for petitioner U S West Direct Co.

A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., Steven R. Shanahan, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Roger C. Fransen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before BROWN, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

The question raised in this case is whether the Public Service Commission (PSC) has been authorized to regulate the publication of an advertising directory by The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company (Mountain Bell). PSC concluded that it has been invested with such authority, and it ordered Mountain Bell to rescind a transaction, pursuant to which Mountain Bell had transferred the directory publishing division of its business to a sister...

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