Legal Opinion
New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC v. Public Utilities Commission
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 19, 2016No. A144005PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
STREETER, J. —
Here we decide whether the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) properly awarded fees and costs to two intervenors, The Utility Reform Network (TURN) and the Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT), for their work in a complex telecommunications merger review proceeding dismissed by the CPUC as moot for reasons unrelated to anything that happened in the proceeding itself.
A group of entities affiliated with AT&T, Inc. (AT&T), one of the merger proponents, filed a petition for a writ of review seeking reversal of these awards. The petition alleges that neither TURN nor…
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