WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT v. PUBLIC SERVICE

Nos. 08-AA-148, 08-AA-17.

982 A.2d 691 (2009)

WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Respondent. Office of the People's Counsel, Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ketanji Brown Jackson, Washington, with whom Sherri N. Blount, Christopher George, Beth S. Brinkmann, Beverly J. Burke, Bernice K. McIntyre and Cathy Thurston-Seignious were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Christopher Lipscombe, with whom Richard A. Beverly, General Counsel of the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, was on the briefs, for respondent.

Jennifer L. Weberski, Assistant People's Counsel, with whom Elizabeth A. Noël, People's Counsel, Sandra Mattavous-Frye, Deputy People's Counsel, Laurence C. Daniels, Assistant People's Counsel, and Robert C. McDiarmid, Scott H. Strauss and Larissa A. Shamraj were on the briefs, for intervenor.

Before GLICKMAN and KRAMER, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.


GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

This appeal concerns a $350,000 forfeiture levied by the D.C. Public Service Commission against Washington Gas Light Company (WGLC). On July 20, 2007, the Commission ordered WGLC to produce to it a copy of a contract WGLC had signed with a third party. When, in the opinion of the Commission, WGLC willfully and "egregious[ly]" failed to submit an unredacted copy of the contract, the Commission imposed the forfeiture, citing D.C.Code §...

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