Court Opinion

ID: 9755212
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:30:26.84087+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:05.286339
License: Public Domain

WINFREE, Justice,
dissenting in part.
I agree with the court in all respects but one. I would leave it to the discretion of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (the RCA), after it concludes that a rate-making "procedural mistake" was made when setting a tariff, to determine an appropriate corrective date in light of all relevant facts and cireum-stances of the particular case. I see insuffi-client justification for establishing the mistake's date of public notice as the earliest possible corrective date. And there is no reason to foreclose the possibility that in a particular case the original rate approval date, or some date after the original rate approval date but before the mistake's date of public notice, would be the appropriate corrective date. The court rightfully relies on the RCA's expertise to make the initial determination of whether a procedural mistake was made; I would also rely on the RCA's expertise to determine an appropriate corrective date. I therefore respectfully dissent on this narrow issue.