CONTINENTAL TELE. CO. v. PA. P.U.C.

Nos. 598 and 599 C.D. 1986.

120 Pa.Commw. 25 (1988)

548 A.2d 344

Continental Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent. Quaker State Telephone Company, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Mark Thomas, with him, Charles E. Thomas, Thomas & Thomas, for petitioners.

Billie E. Ramsey, Assistant Counsel, with her, Bohdan R. Pankiw, Deputy Chief Counsel, and Daniel P. Delaney, Chief Counsel, for respondent.

Daniel Clearfield, Assistant Consumer Advocate, with him, Sally Strauss, Legal Assistant, for intervenor, Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania.

Charles D. Gray, Assistant General Counsel, with him, Paul Rodgers, General Counsel, for amicus curiae National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Argued June 15, 1988, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR., and Judges CRAIG, MacPHAIL, DOYLE, BARRY, COLINS and McGINLEY.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, September 26, 1988:

Two telephone utilities, Continental Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and Quaker State Telephone Company, appeal from orders of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC or commission) that approved rate increases for the utilities but allowed them to recover in rates only a portion of the federal tax expenses that they claimed in their rate filings.

The sole issue raised by the utilities on this appeal is...

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