Arizona Corp. Commission v. State Ex Rel. Woods

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “[t]he [Arizona Constitution’s] framers established the Commission as a separate, popularly-elected branch of state government”
• noting that inter-corporate dealings “can have disastrous consequences for the economic viability of the entire enterprise,” ultimately prejudicing ratepayers
• \The founders expected the Commission to provide both effective regulation of public service corporations and consumer protection against overreaching by those corporations.\
• The Commission must use its “powers to regulate public service corporations in the public interest.”
• “Under Arizona’s system . . . the remedy for regulatory abuse is election.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).