In Re Central Vermont Public Service Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• stating that applicability of collateral estoppel was question of law outside special expertise of Public Service Board
• stating that once prudence of incurred costs is actually litigated, rebuttable presumption that costs were prudently incurred vanishes and utility retains burden of establishing prudence
• stating that application of collateral estoppel is not within Public Service Board's expertise
• holding that unpublished decision “is of limited precedential value”
• stating that decision became a final judgment when not appealed
• affording no deference to Public Service Board's decisions on claim preclusion and issue preclusion because application of judicially-created doctrines not within Board's areas of expertise

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