Grogan v. Public Service Commission

Plaintiffs use outdoor natural gas lights to illuminate their homes. They seek a declaratory judgment invalidating the Public Service Commission’s rules prohibiting the supply, and thus the use, of natural gas for outdoor residential lighting and an order restraining the commission from enforcing the rules. Plaintiffs assert that the commission lacks authority to apply the challenged rules to gas lights in use before the effective date of the rules and that the rules are unconstitutional.

The trial court found that plaintiffs own gas lights which they operated before the effective date of the…