Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Oklahoma Corporation Commission

SIMMS, Justice:

In this original proceeding Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (SWB) seeks this Court’s order disqualifying Corporation Commissioner Anthony (Anthony) from further participation in Corporation Commission proceeding PUD-260, a rate hearing, as well as in all pending and future SWB cases. SWB asserts that Anthony is biased and prejudiced against it, and his continued participation in eases where its substantive rights are at issue will deny SWB its right to due process of law because it will not be able to receive a fair hearing from an impartial tribunal.

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The focus of SWB’s…