PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF N.H. v. PATCH

District of N.H. Civil Action No. 97-97-JD. District of R.I. Civil Action No. 97-121L.

962 F.Supp. 222 (1997)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, North Atlantic Energy Corporation, Northeast Utilities, and Northeast Utilities Service Company, Plaintiffs, v. Douglas L. PATCH, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of New Hampshire, Bruce L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of New Hampshire, and Susan S. Geiger, Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of New Hampshire, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

April 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Cohen, Sulloway, Hollis & Soden, Concord, NH, John B. Nolan, Allan B. Taylor, James J. Tancredi, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Bruce Gladstone, Cameron & Mittleman, Providence, RI, for Plaintiffs.

Steven M. Houran, Acting Atty. Gen., Wynn Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Judge, Associate Atty. Gen., Attorneys General Office, Concord, NH, Steven W. Phillips, James K. Brown, Special Counsel, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, for Defendants.

Charles G. Douglas, III, C. Kevin Leonard Douglas, Robinson, Leonard & Garvey, P.C., Concord, NH, Terrance A. Corrigan, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, for Cabletron Systems, Inc.

James R. M. Anderson, Michael W. Holmes, Office of Consumer Advocate, Concord, NH, for Office of the Consumer Advocate of the State of New Hampshire.

Mark W. Dean, Dean, Rice & Howard, Manchester, NH, for New Hampshire Elec. Co-op., Inc.

Joshua L. Gordon, Concord, NH, for Campaign for Ratepayers Rights.

F. Anne Ross, Concord, NH, for Retail Merchants Ass'n.

John J. Ryan, Casassa and Ryan, Hampton, NH, for Community Action Programs of the State of New Hampshire.

Carlos A. Gavilondo, Westborough, MA, David A. Garfunkel, Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, Concord, NH, for Granite State Elec. Co.

Peter H. Grills, David E. Crawford, O'Neill, Grills, & O'Neill, P.L.L.P., St. Paul, MN, Thomas Arnold, III, Asst. City Sol., Manchester, NH, for City of Manchester.

Paul K. Connolly, Jr., H. Glenn Alberich, Scott J. Mueller, Damian R. LaPlaca, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., Boston, MA, Jacqueline Lake Killgore, Public Utility Policy Institute, Concord, NH, for Unitil Corp., Concord Elec. Co., Exeter & Hampton Elec. Co. and Until Power Corp.


OPINION AND ORDER

RONALD R. LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.*

This action stems from a recent undertaking by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of New Hampshire ("Commission") to restructure the state's electric utility industry. Plaintiffs, Public Service Company of New Hampshire ("PSNH"), North Atlantic Energy Corporation ("NAEC"), Northeast Utilities ("NU"), and Northeast Utilities Service

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