Salt Lake Citizens Congress v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

STEWART, Justice:

The Salt Lake Citizens Congress and the Committee of Consumer Services seek a writ of review of the dismissal of their consolidated requests for agency action by the Public Service Commission. We reverse and remand.

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During the late 1960s and the 1970s, there was much debate over whether a public utility could properly charge charitable contributions to its ratepayers. A large majority of states held that ratepayers could not be charged for a utility’s charitable contributions because the contributions were made for the benefit of shareholders in the form of increased…