Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

[¶ 1] Central Maine Power Company (CMP) appeals the Public Utilities Commission’s promulgation of a rule (Commission Rule) requiring electric transmission and distribution (T & D) facilities to file with the Commission any educational materials the T & D facilities plan to distribute to the public in regard to retail access to electricity generation services. CMP contends, inter alia, that: (1) the Commission Rule regulates noncommercial core speech; (2) the Commission Rule’s section 6(B) pre-dissemination submission requirement constitutes an unconstitutional prior restraint on core speech;…