Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission

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Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission
N.E.2d
749 (N.Y. 1979)
SubsequentOn remand, reversed and remanded, 413 N.E.2d 365 (N.Y. 1980)
Holding
The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protects the right of utility companies to include inserts on matters of controversial public policy with billing statements.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart
Byron White · Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr.
William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
MajorityPowell, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall
ConcurrenceMarshall
ConcurrenceStevens
DissentBlackmun, joined by Rehnquist (parts I, II)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I; N.Y. Pub. Serv. Law §§ 4, 5, 65, 66

Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 530 (1980), was a

Justice Lewis Powell, the Court invalidated an order by the New York Public Service Commission that prohibited utility companies from including inserts on controversial matters of public policy with billing statements.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 530, 532 (1980).
  2. ^ Consolidated Edison Co., 447 U.S. at 544.

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