Southern Pacific Co. v. Heltzel & Pacific Inland Tariff Bureau, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Public Utilities Commissioner lacked authority to set minimum rates or order a railroad to increase rates because that power would alter the nature of the Commissioner’s duties without guidance from the legislature
• concluding that Public Utilities Commissioner lacked authority to set minimum rates or order a railroad to increase rates because that power would alter the nature of the Commissioner’s duties without guidance from the legislature
• “The fact that the Commissioner has been given some power to act in some areas of utility regulation does not imply that he may exercise all the power that the legislature might have exercised had it chosen to act directly.”
• “The fact that the Commissioner has been given some power to act in some areas of utility regulation does not imply that he may exercise all the power that the legislature might have exercised had it chosen to act directly.”

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