Colorado Ute Electric Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \we cannot say that the commission's decision to adjust for only one of several out-of-period changes was an abuse of discretion\
• Commission not bound by its prior decisions or by any doctrine similar to stare decisis
• PUC’s exclusion of $8,868 membership dues and fees from test year expenses not arbitrary or capricious
• court will not question PUC's method of making out-of-period adjustments unless it is inherently unsound
• Commission not bound by its prior decisions or by any doctrine similar to stare decisis
• \We would overstep our role and demean the [PUC's] authority in the legislative field of rate making were we to insist that the [PUC] revise its method ... in the absence of persuasive evidence that the challenged method is inherently unsound.\

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