| bgcolor="6699FF" | Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n |
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Supreme Court of the United States |
bgcolor="6699FF" | Argued March 17, 1980
Decided June 20, 1980 |
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| valign="top"|Full case name: | valign="top"|Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. v. Public Servic Commission of New York |
| valign="top"|Citations: | valign="top"|447 U.S. 530; 100 S. Ct. 2326; 65 L. Ed. 2d 319; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 6; 6 Media L. Rep. 1518; 34 P.U.R.4th 208 |
| valign="top"|Prior history: | valign="top"|402 N.Y.S.2d 551 (N.Y. Sup.Ct. 1978); reversed, 407 N.Y.S.2d 735 (N.Y. Sup.Ct.App.Div. 1978); affirmed, 390 N.E.2d 749 (N.Y. 1979) |
| valign="top"|Subsequent history: | valign="top"|On remand, reversed and remanded, 413 N.E.2d 365 (N.Y. 1980) | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | 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. |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Court membership |
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| Chief Justice: Warren Burger |
| Associate Justices: William Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Lewis Powell, William Rehnquist, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Case opinions |
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| Majority by: Powell |
| Joined by: Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall |
| Concurrence by: Marshall |
| Concurrence by: Stevens |
| Dissent by: Blackmun |
| Joined by: Rehnquist (Parts I and II) | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Laws applied |
| U.S. Const. amend. I; N.Y. Pub. Serv. Law 4, 5, 65, 66 |