State Ex Rel. City of Joplin v. Public Service Commission

THOMAS H. NEWTON, Judge.

The City of Joplin appeals a circuit court decision affirming the Public Service Commission’s (Commission) ruling that a 2000 rate case involving the Missouri-American Water Company (Company) was mooted by new tariffs that Joplin agreed to and were approved by the Commission in 2004 while this case was pending. - Because we find that the case fits within an exception to the mootness doctrine, we reverse and remand for the Commission to issue findings of fact and conclusions of law as ordered by the circuit court in 2001.

In August 2000 the Commission approved a Company…