Office of Consumers' Counsel v. Public Utilities Commission

The pivotal issue this appeal presents is the extent of the authority of the Public Utilities Commission to limit new issues sought to be developed in an R. C. 4909.19 rate determination hearing by a party, including Consumers’ Counsel,1 intervening solely by entry of appearance at the commencement of the hearing and without having previously raised such issues by pre-filed objections to the application or the staff report, by a petition seeking leave to intervene as a party, or by pre-filing the written testimony of the party’s expert witnesses.2

Appellant, Consumers’ Counsel, in his…