Public Service Commission v. Patuxent Valley Conservation League

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to decide whether the individual commissioners of the Public Service Commission, a state agency, may be required to appear for pretrial depositions with respect to a Commission decision granting the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the construction of a transmission line in Montgomery and Howard Counties. We are also presented with the threshold question of whether the trial court’s discovery order, in an action for judicial review of the administrative decision reached by the Commission, may…