Case Name: ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Energy Corporation and Gulf States Utilities Company
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1995-02-17
Citations: 650 So. 2d 247
Docket Number: No. 94-CD-3102
Parties: ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Energy Corporation and Gulf States Utilities Company.
Judges: WATSON, J., not on panel.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 650
Pages: 247–248

Head Matter:
ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Energy Corporation and Gulf States Utilities Company.
No. 94-CD-3102.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Feb. 17, 1995.

Opinion:
In re Louisiana Public Service Comm.;— Defendant(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. "A", No. 397369.
Granted. Judgment of the trial court ordering that any ex parte communication with any Commissioner of the Public Service Commission occurring during the pendency of the proceeding and relating to the proposed merger of Energy Corp. and Gulf States Utilities Co. should be revealed and permitting the parties to take such depositions as may be deemed necessary for that purpose is reversed and set aside. The approval of the merger proceeding was not an adjudication; rather, it was in the nature of a ratemaking proceeding, a legislative function. See Gulf States Utilities Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 578 So.2d 71, 79 (La.1991). Case remanded to the trial court for further proceedings.
WATSON, J., not on panel.