OFFICE OF CONS. ADVOCATE v. COMMERCE COM'N

No. 87-1626.

432 N.W.2d 148 (1988)

OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE, Appellant, v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Appellee, and Iowa Southern Utilities Company, Intervenor-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Maret, Consumer Advocate, and Ronald C. Polle and Ben Stead, Des Moines, for Office of Consumer Advocate.

Herschel G. Langdon and Ross A. Walters of Herrick, Langdon & Langdon, Des Moines, and Stephen W. Southwick, Centerville, for Iowa Southern Utilities Co.

Susan Allender, Gen. Counsel, and Allan Kniep, Asst. Gen. Counsel, for Iowa Utilities Bd.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

Iowa Southern Utilities filed an application for an increase in its electric rates, and the Iowa State Commerce Commission (now known as the Iowa Utilities Board) began proceedings to process the application. See Iowa Code ch. 476. The Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA), acting under Iowa Code section 475A.2 (1985), resisted the application and further proposed that Iowa Southern's rates be decreased. A hearing examiner rejected Iowa...

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