EASTERN CONNECTICUT CABLE TELEVISION, INC. v. DPUC

(13854)

214 Conn. 609 (1990)

EASTERN CONNECTICUT CABLE TELEVISION, INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITY CONTROL ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Knickerbocker, Jr., with whom, on the brief, was Barry G. Russell, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Tatiana D. Sypko, assistant attorney general, with whom were Robert S. Golden, Jr., assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Clarine Nardi Riddle, attorney-general, for the appellee (named defendant).

Valerie J. Bryan, for the appellee (defendant office of consumer counsel).

Richard K. Greenberg, assistant attorney general, and Clarine Nardi Riddle, attorney general, filed a brief for the commissioner of revenue services as amicus curiae.

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, CALLAHAN, GLASS and COVELLO, Js.


PETERS, C. J.

In order to finance the expenses of the department of public utility control and the office of consumer counsel, General Statutes § 16-49 (b)1 authorizes an assessment of cable television companies based on their taxable gross revenues. The plaintiff, Eastern Connecticut Cable Television, Inc., initiated administrative proceedings objecting to the manner in which the named...

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