Office of Consumer Advocate v. Iowa State Commerce Commission

WOLLE, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal concerns the scope of the court’s jurisdiction to review a decision of the Iowa State Commerce Commission (commission) when petitions for judicial review have been filed in two different counties. Within the time permitted for seeking judicial review of a commission rate-case decision, petitioner Interstate Power Company (utility) filed a petition for judicial review in Dubuque County district court, and petitioner Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) filed its petition for judicial review in Polk County district court. The utility contends that its…