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COALITION OF CITIES FOR AFFORDABLE UTILITY RATES v. PUC

No. C-9287.

798 S.W.2d 560 (1990)

COALITION OF CITIES FOR AFFORDABLE UTILITY RATES, et al., Petitioners, v. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled November 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Boyle, Jonathan W. Needle, John Laakso, Grace Casstevens, Austin, for petitioners.

Jim Mattox, Mary F. Keller, Larry J. Laurent, Susan D. Bergen, Karen Pettigrew, Barry Bishop, John F. Williams, Mark I. Hefter, Austin, for respondents.

OPINION

DOGGETT, Justice.

In this appeal certain consumers of a public utility urge that it be denied a second opportunity to prove the same facts as justification for an electric rate increase. We agree that the public utility regulatory scheme set forth by the legislature provides that once is enough. The doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel bar such relitigation before the Public Utility Commission ("PUC").

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