Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama Public Commission

ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Alabama Public Service Commission (“APSC”). On December 26, 1985, the Greater Birmingham Unemployed Committee (“GBUC”) filed a complaint pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 37-1-83, with the APSC against Alabama Gas Corporation (“Ala-gasco”) and Alabama Power Company (“APCo”), alleging that Alagasco’s and APCo’s “rates, service regulations, practices and classifications” were “unfair, unreasonable, unjust, inadequate, unjustly discriminatory and unduly preferential because low income customers cannot obtain a reasonable amount of utility services…