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Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission
Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 17, 1980; Decided June 20, 1980
Full case name	Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Incorporated v. Public Service Commission of New York
Citations	447 U.S. 530 (more) 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
Case history
Prior	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)
Subsequent	On 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
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall
Concurrence	Marshall
Concurrence	Stevens
Dissent	Blackmun, 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 United States Supreme Court decision addressing the free speech rights of public utility corporations under the First Amendment.^[1] In a majority opinion written by 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]