Connecticut Natural Gas Corp. v. Department of Consumer Protection

The plaintiffs, Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation and Yankee Gas Services Company (gas companies),1 appeal from the judgment of the trial court in favor of the defendant department of consumer protection2 dismissing the plaintiffs’ appeal from the declaratory ruling of the department’s examining boards. The gas companies appealed to the trial court seeking an order overruling the declaratory ruling by the state heating, piping and cooling work examining board and the state plumbing and piping work examining board (boards).3 The boards (1) ruled that employ*198ees of the gas companies who do…