PEOPLE EX REL. HARTIGAN v. ILL. COMMERCE COM'N

Nos. 71154, 71155.

592 N.E.2d 1066 (1992)

148 Ill.2d 348

170 Ill.Dec. 386

The PEOPLE ex rel. Neil F. HARTIGAN, Attorney General, et al., Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. The ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION et al., Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan and Roland W. Burris, Attys. Gen., Springfield (Robert W. Cushing, G. Darryl Reed, Janice Dale and MaryNic U. Foster, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Howard A. Learner and Robert L. Jones, Jr., Chicago, for appellant and cross-appellee Business & Professional People for the Public Interest.

Robert L. Graham, and Norman M. Hirsch, of Jenner & Block, and Susan L. Satter, Chicago, for appellant and cross-appellee Citizens Utility Bd.

Kelly R. Welsh, Corporation Counsel, Chicago (Patrick Giordano, Special Asst. Corp. Counsel, of Foley & Lardner, and Jean Dobrer, of counsel), for appellant and cross-appellee City of Chicago.

Allen W. Cherry, Chicago, for appellants and cross-appellees Community Action for Fair Utility Practice et al.

David Gilbert, Chicago, for appellant and cross-appellee Governor's Office of Consumer Services.

John P. Meyer, Danville, for appellant and cross-appellee Dept. of Transp.

Gilbert A. Cornfield, of Cornfield & Feldman, Chicago, for appellant and cross-appellee Labor Coalition on Public Utilities.

Cecil A. Partee and Jack O'Malley, State's Attys., Chicago (Thomas H. Rowland and Sheila Macmanus, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People of Cook County.

Stephen J. Moore and M. Kathleen Nolan, Public Counsel, and Stephen E. Fogel, Deputy Public Counsel, Chicago, for the People ex rel. Office of Public Counsel.

Howard J. Trienens, R. Eden Martin, Michael I. Miller and Dale E. Thomas, of Sidley & Austin, and Kevin M. Forde, Chicago, for appellant and cross-appellee Commonwealth Edison Co.

Edward P. O'Brien and John P. Kelliher, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, for appellee and cross-appellant Illinois Commerce Commission.

Randall Robertson and Edward C. Fitzhenry, of Lueders, Robertson & Konzen, Granite City, for appellee and cross-appellant Illinois Industrial Energy Consumers.


Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

Pursuant to section 9-201 of the Public Utilities Act (Act), Commonwealth Edison sought an increase in the rates charged to its customers before the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission), the statutorily authorized ratemaking agency. (Ill.Rev. Stat.1985, ch. 1112/3, par. 1-101 et seq.) Edison sought this rate increase to recoup $2.55 billion in costs it incurred in constructing its Byron Unit I nuclear...

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