Legal Opinion
Public Service Co. of Colorado v. Public Utilities Commission
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided November 15, 1982No. 81SA2, 81SA7PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVIRA, Justice.
This is an appeal from a district court affirmance of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s (Commission) grant of emergency rate relief to Public Service Company of Colorado (Public Service or Company). We affirm.
On March 26, 1980, Public Service filed three advice letters with the Commission seeking a $68 million emergency interim rate increase. The Company asserted that despite a rate increase granted four months earlier, continuing inflation and high interest rates had caused such a deterioration of its financial situation that without immediate rate relief…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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- Bell v. BursonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- Kibler v. StateSupreme Court of Colorado · 1986
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