been addressed by the Court. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Clerk of Court shall transmit to each Respondent a copy of this General Opinion and Order and a copy of the applicable Individual Opinion. The Clerk of Court shall also transmit a copy of this General Opinion and Order and a copy of each separate opinion to each attorney of record. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Motion to Clarify Openness of Court Files Regarding All But Currently Challenged Materials [159] is not well taken and is hereby DENIED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all other pending motions in this case [entered docket as numbers 146, 151, 162 and 166] are hereby dismissed without prejudice. 1 . The facts of this case are set forth in detail at American Civil Liberties Union v. Mabus, 719 F.Supp. 1345 (S.D.Miss.1989) (<HOLDING>), vacated, 911 F.2d 1066 (5th Cir.1990)
holding that the commission applied its technical knowledge and expertise to the facts presented and the commissioners decision  should be afforded deference when the commission conducted investigations reviewed accounting practices and solicited comments from several agencies and organizations involved in the regulatory process in the course of balancing the interests of the public utility and the public to reach its decision holding it essential to the constitutionality of a mill act that the statute should require the use to be public in fact in other words that it should contain provisions entitling the public to accommodations holding that the sovereignty commission files should be opened to the general public holding that the commission on remand can set the effective date of a rate to be the effective date of the original commission activity recognizing that public utilities affect the public interest in that they render essential public services to a large number of the general public