Behles v. New Mexico Public Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Commission did not violate the water company’s right to 6 due process by denying the rate increase
• explaining that it would be unfair to require customers who paid a CIAC to then pay rates based on the value of facilities they themselves financed
• requiring Commission to “balance the investor’s interest against the ratepayer’s interest”
• “[W]e must always keep in mind that ‘the Commission is vested with considerable discretion in determining the justness and reasonableness of utility rates.’”
• “ ‘Our limited but vital role is to ensure that the end result of a rate order reasonably balances investor and ratepayer interests.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).