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STATE OF WISCONSIN v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 16175, 16177, 16180.

303 F.2d 380 (1961)

STATE OF WISCONSIN and Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Phillips Petroleum Company, Intervenor. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Phillips Petroleum Company, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Intervenors. PEOPLE OF the STATE OF CALIFORNIA and Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Phillips Petroleum Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1961.

Certiorari Granted May 14, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William E. Torkelson, Madison, Wis., for petitioners in No. 16175.

Mr. J. David Mann, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. John E. Holtzinger, Jr., and William W. Ross, Washington, D. C., and David K. Kadane, Mineola, N. Y., were on the brief, for petitioners in No. 16177.

Mr. William M. Bennett, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioners in No. 16180.

Mr. Arthur H. Fribourg, Atty., F. P. C., with whom Mr. John C. Mason, Gen. Counsel, F. P. C., at the time the brief was filed, and now Deputy Gen. Counsel, and Mr. Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Sol., F. P. C., were on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Kenneth Heady, of the bar of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Bartlesville, Okl., pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Messrs. Charles E. McGee and Lambert McAllister, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for intervenor Phillips Petroleum Co.

Messrs. Kent H. Brown and George H. Kenny, Albany, N. Y., and Mrs. Barbara M. Suchow, New York City, were on the brief for intervenor Public Service Commission of State of New York in No. 16177.

Before PRETTYMAN, FAHY, and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Granted May 14, 1962. See 82 S.Ct. 1138.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Some controversies concern major problems of general application. Others concern only a limited set of circumstances. The case at bar is of the former variety. The questions are posed by complicated procedural difficulties. They concern the procedures of the Federal Power Commission in dealing with the rates of natural gas producers.

The Phillips Petroleum Company is a producer...

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