Supreme Court of Texas

Texas Utilities Code Chapter 58 does not, either expressly or impliedly, authorize the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) to circumvent its mandatory duty to allow an otherwise appropriate rate-group reclassification by adjusting rate-group boundaries, and such adjustment exceeded the PUC's powers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/13/2002
• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ricardo Guzman, James G. Boyle, Law Office of Jim Boyle, Roger B. Borgelt, Assistant Attorney General, Sara Joy Ferris, Office of Public Utility Counsel, Amanda Atkinson, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Hearon, Jr., Michael Diehl, Ron H. Moss, Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, Jose Varela, Jr., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Ann Effinger, Austin, James D. Ellis, SBC Communications, Inc., San Antonio, for Respondent.