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TONGREN v. PUB. UTIL. COMM.

Nos. 97-740 and 97-1294.

85 Ohio St.3d 87 (1999)

TONGREN, OHIO CONSUMERS' COUNSEL, APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES. TONGREN, OHIO CONSUMERS' COUNSEL, APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 24, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Tongren, Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Frank P. Darr, Legal Director, Yolanda V. Vorys, Assistant Legal Director, Thomas J. O'Brien, Joseph P. Serio, Eric B. Stephens and David C. Bergman, Assistant Consumers' Counsel, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Duane W. Luckey and Thomas W. McNamee, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Helen L. Liebman and Paul T. Ruxin, for intervening appellee East Ohio Gas Company.

LUNDBERG STRATTON, J.

The commission, as a creature of statute, has and can exercise only the authority conferred upon it by the General Assembly. Columbus S. Power Co. v. Pub. Util. Comm. (1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 535, 620 N.E.2d 835; Pike Natural Gas Co. v. Pub. Util. Comm. (1981), 68 Ohio St.2d 181, 22 O.O.3d 410, 429 N.E.2d 444; Consumers' Counsel...

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