Washington Natural Gas Co. v. Public Utility District No. 1

How courts have described this case

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• finding that where a controversy’s “outcome will have a direct bearing on the commerce, finance, labor, industry or agriculture generally, questions of standing to maintain an action should be given less rigid and more liberal answer”
• finding exception when “a controversy is of serious public importance and immediately affects substantial segments of the population and its outcome will have a direct bearing on the commerce, finance, labor, industry or agriculture generally”
• PUD dispensing electrical power may construct a distribution system within a private development
• “Nowhere does its [CPA’s] language imply that municipal corporations or political subdivisions of the state are within the definition of persons and entities made subject to it.”
• “Where a statute specifically designates the things or classes of things upon which it operates, an inference arises in law that all things or classes of things omitted from it were intentionally omitted by the legislature.”
• “Where a statute specifically designates the things or classes of things upon which it operates, an inference arises in law that all things or classes of things omitted from it were intentionally omitted by the legislature . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).