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OFFICE OF PUBLIC ADV. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COM'N

866 A.2d 851 (2005)

2005 ME 15

OFFICE OF PUBLIC ADVOCATE et al. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 26, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald F. Petruccelli (orally), Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, L.L.P., Portland, for OPA, appellant.

William C. Black, Wayne R. Jortner, Office of Public Advocate, Augusta, Robert S. Frank (orally), Harvey & Frank, Portland, for AARP, appellant.

Peter G. Ballou (orally), Joanne B. Steneck, Public Utilities Commission, Augusta, Catherine R. Connors (orally), William D. Hewitt, Pierce Atwood, Portland, for Verizon.

Donald W. Boecke, Verizon New England, Boston, MA, for appellee.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, and CALKINS, JJ.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] At issue in the present case is the method by which the Public Utilities Commission sets the rates that telephone companies may charge their ratepayers. Specifically, we are called upon to determine whether the Legislature intended to authorize the Commission to approve alternative forms of rate regulation without making a good faith attempt to compare the rates obtainable under those regulations with the rates that would be projected under...

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