Legal Opinion
Lopez v. PUBLIC UTILITY COM'N OF TEXAS
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided September 25, 1991No. 3-90-178-CVPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POWERS, Justice.
The district court dismissed, for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, certain claims brought by the plaintiffs against the Public Utility Commission and the City of Robs-town. The plaintiffs appeal. We will modify the judgment and affirm it as modified.
THE CONTROVERSY
In 1989, the governing body of the City enacted an ordinance affecting the electric rates chargeable by the City’s municipally owned utility. The plaintiffs challenge the resulting rates in the present lawsuit, which they filed after first initiating in the Commission a similar attack upon the rates.
Plaintiffs’…
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