U S West Communications, Inc. v. New Mexico State Corp.

OPINION FRANCHINI, Chief Justice.

{1} U S WEST Communications, Inc. (US West) removed this action from the New Mexico State Corporation Commission (Commission) and seeks review of the Commission’s order regarding US West’s application to make a new telecommunications service known as Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) generally available to its New Mexico customers. We address the following issues:

1) whether judicial review at this time is inappropriate under the doctrines of ripeness and exhaustion of remedies or under the principle of comity, given that US West has failed to seek…