City of Allen v. Public Utility Commission

OPINION

JAN P. PATTERSON, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the Public Utility Commission has jurisdiction under the Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURA) to review certain ordinances that a city claims to have enacted based on its police power. The City of Allen and a coalition of cities 1 appeal from a district court judgment partially dismissing the Cities’ appeal and partially affirming the Commission’s summary decision that invalidated four municipal ordinances because of their conflict with Oncor Electric Delivery Company’s 2 tariffs, PURA, and the Commission’s rules. For…