Court Opinion

ID: 9513255
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:33:21.011307+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:47.850950
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SANDSTROM, Justice,
concurring.
[¶ 31] In Aggie Investments v. Public Service Commission, 470 N.W.2d 805, 809 (N.D.1991), this Court held the Commission (which had already held days of hearings on the ease) acted without reasonable justification in failing to hold yet another hearing which no one had requested. After Aggie and Service Oil, Inc. v. State, 479 N.W.2d 815 (N.D.1992), in addition to the legislative change noted in the Opinion of the Court, the next session of the legislature, by unanimous votes of both houses, adopted House Bill 1131, 1993 S.L. ch. 463, amending N.D.C.C. § 49-02-02(5), making explicit, what many considered im*642plicit, the Public Service Commission need not hold a hearing if “no interested party has asked for a hearing.”
[¶ 32] “Substantial justification” must be reasonably assessed.
[¶ 38] I concur in the Opinion of the Court.
[¶ 34] VANDE WALLE, C.J., concurs.