United Water New Mexico, Inc. v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the Commission improperly exercised jurisdiction over a municipality that had “not elected to submit itself to ... regulation”
• holding that the determination of just compensation is a judicial function
• stating that statutory interpretation “must not render the statute[s’] application absurd, unreasonable, or unjust”
• finding the legislature concluded that municipalities were fully capable of protecting the citizens’ interests without commission oversight
• “[T]he legislature ... [has] made it very clear that municipalities are excluded from the definition of public utilities under the [NMPUA].” (citing Section 62-3-3(E)
• “Our interpretation of the statute[s] must be consistent with legislative intent, and our construction must not render the statute[s’] application absurd, unreasonable, or unjust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).