PUBLIC SERVICE COM'N OF N. Y. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 12401, 12403.

257 F.2d 717 (1958)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF STATE OF NEW YORK, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY, Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1958.

Rehearing Denied August 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent H. Brown, Albany, N. Y., for Public Service Commission.

Edward S. Kirby, Newark, N. J., for Public Service Electric & Gas Co.

David K. Kadane, Mineola, N. Y. (Edward M. Barrett, Garden City, N. Y., Bertram D. Moll, Mineola, N. Y., Edward J. Morris, Franklin Square, N. Y., on the brief), for Long Island Lighting Co.

Gene M. Woodfin, Houston, Tex. (Robert O. Koch, Houston, Tex., J. Evans Attwell, Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., Roland B. Voight, Lloyd F. Thanhouser, Houston, Tex., on the brief), for Continental Oil Co. and Tidewater Oil Co.

Bernard A. Foster, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Charles B. Ellard, William R. Dotson, Edward J. Kremer, Jr., Dallas, Tex., Bernard A. Foster, Jr., Sherman S. Poland, Ross, Marsh & Foster, Washington, D. C., Gentry Lee, Cecil C. Cammack, Bartlesville, Okl., on the brief), for Atlantic Refining Co. and Cities Service Production Co.

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Washington, D. C. (Willard W. Gatchell, General Counsel, Robert L. Russell, Asst. General Counsel, John Paul Geneau, Attorney, Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Federal Power Commission.

William C. Braden, Jr., Houston, Tex., Harry S. Littman, Jack Werner, Harold L. Talisman, Washington, D. C., for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.

Before KALODNER, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


STALEY, Circuit Judge.

Serious questions involving the authority of the Federal Power Commission are presented in these petitions to review an order of the Commission granting certificates of public convenience and necessity pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717f(e).

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