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APPEAL OF PUBLIC SERV. CO. OF N.H.

No. 82-366.

122 N.H. 1062 (1982)

APPEAL OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission).

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sulloway, Hollis & Soden, of Concord (Martin L. Gross, Margaret H. Nelson, and Dorothy M. Bickford on the brief, and Mr. Gross orally), for Public Service Company of New Hampshire.

Ferriter & Barna P.C., of Boston, Massachusetts (Nicholas J. Scobbo, Jr., Kenneth M. Barna, Robert A. Guttman, and Robert P. Rodophele on the brief, and Mr. Barna orally), for the Joint Owners Group.

Gregory H. Smith, attorney general (Bruce E. Mohl, attorney, and F. Joseph Gentili, consumer advocate, on the brief and orally), for the State and the New Hampshire Consumer Advocate.

New England Legal Foundation, of Boston, Massachusetts (Joseph O. Alviani and Marcia Drake Seeler on the brief), by brief for the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, as amicus curiae.

Douglas I. Foy and Alan Wilson, of Boston, Massachusetts, by brief for the Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc., as amicus curiae.

DOUGLAS, J.

This is an appeal pursuant to RSA 541:6 from conditions placed upon the future issuance of securities by Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) under an order of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Several matters relating to the proper role of a quasi-judicial regulatory agency are raised by the appealing parties.

On May 18, 1982, the PUC initiated Docket No. DF 82-141 on its own motion. The order recited that the docket...

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