Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Textile Manufacturers Ass'n

Benham, Chief Justice.

These appeals involve the decision of the Georgia Public Service Commission (“PSC”) to deny a motion for discovery made by an intervenor in a rate case pending before the PSC. After the intervenor Georgia Textile Manufacturers Association (“GTMA”) appealed the PSC’s decision to the Superior Court of Fulton County, Atlanta Gas Light Company (“AGL”), the utility which sought the rate increase, withdrew its rate case from the PSC’s consideration. The superior court recognized that AGL had dismissed the underlying rate case, but exercised its discretionary jurisdiction to…