COALITION FOR SAFE POWER v. PUC

CC A8404-02380, A8505-3006, A8605-02998, A8804-01802; CA A81523 (control), A82882, A82488, A82489; SC S43274.

939 P.2d 1167 (1997)

325 Or. 447

COALITION FOR SAFE POWER, Plaintiff, Forelaws On Board, Petitioner on Review, Citizens Utility Board of Oregon, Intervenor, v. OREGON PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, Respondent on Review, and Pacific Power & Light Co., Intervenor/Respondent on Review. UTILITY REFORM PROJECT, Petitioner on Review, v. OREGON PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION and Pacific Power & Light Company, Respondents on Review (Three Cases).

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided July 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel W. Meek, Portland, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioners on review. With him on the brief was Linda K. Williams, Portland.

Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent on review Oregon Public Utility Commission. With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General.

Katherine A. McDowell of Stoel Rives L.L.P., Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent on review Pacific Power & Light Co. With her on the brief were Charles F. Hinkle and Marcus Wood.

Before CARSON, C.J., and GILLETTE, VAN HOOMISSEN, FADELEY, and DURHAM, JJ.


GILLETTE, Justice.

These four consolidated cases are actions to set aside orders issued by the Oregon Public Utility Commission ("the PUC"). The actions—or "suits," as they are styled by statute—were filed pursuant to ORS 756.580(1).1 All four were filed in the Multnomah County Circuit Court in the mid-1980s and were prosecuted in that court without any challenge to that court's...

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