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Investigative, Factfinding, Licensing, and Rate-fixing Powers

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  1. What is the basic distinction between factfinding investigation and adjudication?
  2. For rate fixing governed by Book VII, Section 9(2) of EO 292 with no contrary special regime, when must proposed rates …
  3. What default safeguard does Book VII, Section 17(2) prescribe before withdrawal, suspension, revocation or annulment of…
  4. A license concerns an activity of a continuing nature. Its holder makes a timely and sufficient renewal application, an…
  5. In a contested case governed by Book VII, Section 13, a party requests attendance of a witness and production of pertin…
  6. A regulator finally reduces only one utility's rates based on disputed factual findings in an audit. The utility is den…
  7. An agency governed by Book VII revokes a continuing business license solely on an untested complaint and administrative…
  8. Distinguish an agency's investigation of facts from its adjudication of a controversy. Does possession of investigative…
  9. Under Book VII, Sections 17 and 18 of EO 292, explain the default process before revoking a license and the treatment o…
  10. A regulator argues that the label rate fixing always permits deciding a disputed individual utility's final rate case w…
  11. Under Book VII’s definition, is licensing limited to the initial grant of a permit?
  12. When a person disobeys an agency subpoena in a contested case, what assistance does Book VII, Section 13 provide unless…