Electric Lightwave, Inc. v. Utilities & Transportation 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 Legislature must expressly grant monopolies ... before the Commission may exercise such rights”
• stating that \[s]ubstantial evidence is evidence in sufficient quantum to persuade a fair-minded person of the truth of the declared premises.\
• stating an appellate court applies the de novo review standard to a decision on a legal issue
• stating an appellate court applies the de novo review standard to a decision upon a legal issue
• addressing the Commission’s scope of authority and holding that the legislature must expressly grant the Commission the authority to grant monopolies
• \we do not defer to an agency the power to determine the scope of its own authority\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).