Attorney General v. Public Service Commission

Meter, RJ.

(dissenting). I respectfully dissent because I do not believe that this case presents the appropriate circumstances in which to address the Attorney General’s ability to sue a party whom she also represents.

The majority’s opinion fails to adequately address a key issue directed to us by the October 11, 2000, order of the Supreme Court: “whether the conflict of interest question raised at the oral argument presents a live controversy in this case or the dispute is purely hypothetical.”1 I conclude that the conflict of interest question raised at oral argument is indeed purely…