Legal Opinion
Cambridge Electric Light Co. v. Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 23, 1973PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The petitioners, eighteen gas or electric utility corporations within the jurisdiction of the respondent Department of Public Utilities (department), seek to annul certain regulations dealing with billing of customers and termination of service approved and promulgated by the department after public hearings. The petitioners have made their challenge in the form of several petitions for appeal in the county court under the provisions of G. L. c. 25, § 5. Because of uncertainty about whether appeal under that statute is the correct avenue for judicial review of the department’s action, nine of…
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