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· 5/30/2008

City of Coralville v. Iowa Utilities Board

Citations

  • 750 N.W.2d 523
  • 2008 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 77
  • 2008 WL 2221972

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding the IUB’s interpretation of “rates and services” in section 467.1(1) was entitled to deference
  • holding the IUB’s interpretation of “rates and services” in section 467.1(1) was entitled to deference
  • declining to interpret the Iowa Constitution as requiring that “all Iowa laws be geographically uniform”
  • declining to interpret the Iowa Constitution as requiring that “all Iowa laws be geographically uniform”
  • concluding the “ ‘broad general powers to effect the purposes’ of chapter 476, which includes the authority to regulate public utility rates,” vested the utilities board with authority to interpret the rates and services provision of section 476.1 (quoting Iowa Code § 476.2(1
  • rejecting an equal protection challenge to a utility law that applied equally to all communities but with different results in different locales on the ground that it was “in substance a misplaced argument for uniformity of consequences rather than uniformity of operation”

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Judges: Hecht, Baker

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