New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers v. New Mexico Public Service Commission

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• recognizing that the determination of finality must be based on pragmatic consideration of the matters at issue, and that the reviewing court must consider the hardship which would result from denying review of the agency action
• upholding the Commission’s exclusion of the utility’s capacity contract from the rate amount because the Commission exercised jurisdiction over the rates, not the contract itself
• declining to take judicial 13 notice of companion cases when to do so would “resolve the ripeness problem . . . in 14 [the] opinion, [but] . . . raise other questions regarding finality and the rules of 15 appellate procedure”
• “ ‘The basic purpose of ripeness law is and always has been to conserve judicial machinery for problems which are real and present or imminent, not to squander it on abstract or hypothetical or remote problems.’’’(citation omitted)

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