Legal Opinion
Morris A. Palmer, and Alice Taylor, Intervening v. Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 22, 1973No. 72-1772PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.
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The plaintiffs, residential customers of natural gas supplied by the defendant Columbia Gas Company, brought this class action for injunctive and declaratory relief and for damages, alleging that their gas service had been terminated under color of state law in violation of their constitutional right to due process.
The Columbia Gas Company is a large, privately owned, pervasively regulated public utility company. It serves over 140,000 customers in the Toledo, Ohio, area, 1 and all of its billing is handled by computer in Columbus, Ohio. A reading is normally…
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