Utah Power & Light Co. v. Idaho Public Utilities Commission

This action arose in 1976 when appellant Utah Power & Light applied for an increase in its rates. The commission denied a substantial portion of that requested rate increase, and an appeal to this Court followed. Utah Power & Light v. Public Util. Comm’n, 102 Idaho 282, 629 P.2d 678 (1981). Four members of this Court joined in that opinion, holding that the rates set by the commission were unjust, unreasonable, and thus confiscatory. The amount of that confiscation was in excess of six million dollars. The Court cited Inter-mountain Gas Co. v. Idaho Public Util. Comm’n, 97 Idaho 113, 540 P.2d…