Attorney General v. Public Service Commission

A statute provides that a party dissatisfied with a rate-fixing order of the Michigan Public Service Commission may file an action seeking judicial review within thirty days "from the issuance of such order and notice thereof.”

Another statute empowers the commission to grant rehearings, 2 and provides that the time allowed for commencing an action to review an order of the commission "shall continue after the order denying a rehearing or made upon a rehearing, for the same number of days” provided for review of the order upon which rehearing was sought. 3

The question presented is whether the…