Legal Opinion

Porter v. South Carolina Public Service Commission

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided August 11, 1997No. 24669PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALLER, Justice:

This appeal involves an order of the Public Service Commission (PSC) which removed price caps for certain business services provided by AT & T. We affirm.

FACTS

Subsequent to AT & T’s divestiture in 1983, the PSC issued Order # 84-622 regulating interexchange telephone carriers (IXCs) and setting forth price caps. In 1995, AT & T filed a petition pursuant to S.C.Code Ann. § 58-9-585 (Supp.1994) seeking alternative regulation for certain of its services,1 and requesting, inter alia, PSC to declare these services competitive and remove price caps therefrom. By Order # 95-1734, PSC…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Whiteside v. Cherokee County School District No. OneSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1993
  2. State v. BrownSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1994
  3. Williams v. Town of Hilton Head IslandSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1993
  4. State v. SmithSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1993
  5. Hamm v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1990

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Hodges v. RaineySupreme Court of South Carolina · 2000
  2. Palmetto Homes, Inc. v. BradleyCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 2004
  3. Hodges v. RaineySupreme Court of South Carolina · 2000
  4. Porter v. SC PUBLIC SERVICE COM'NSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1997
  5. Richardson v. City of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 2000

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