Archive Report
Archive Report
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Richard M. Boeckel, Editor.
Coming Supreme Court Decision of Valuation
The impending decision of the Supreme Court in a California case1 involving regulation of gas rates may have an important bearing on one phase of the conflict that has divided the Roosevelt administration and the public-utility industry. The case at bar affords the Court an opportunity either to affirm its long adherence to the doctrine that reproduction cost must be given consideration as a factor in valuation of utilities for rate-making purposes, or to relax that rule so as to ...