NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO.
v.
STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF KANSAS.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 13, 1962.
Decided February 18, 1963.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mark H. Adams argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs were Lawrence I. Shaw, F. Vinson Roach, Mark H. Adams II and Joe Rolston.
Charles C. McCarter argued the cause for appellee. With him on the brief was Hugh B. Cox.
Solicitor General Cox, Acting Assistant Attorney General Guilfoyle, Ralph S. Spritzer, Richard A. Solomon, Howard E. Wahrenbrock and Arthur H. Fribourg filed a brief for the Federal Power Commission, as amicus curiae.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed for the State of Texas by Will Wilson, Attorney General, and Linward Shivers, Assistant Attorney General; for the State of Alabama by MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General; for the State of Colorado by Duke W. Dunbar, Attorney General; for the State of Georgia by Eugene Cook, Attorney General; for the State of Illinois by William G. Clark, Attorney General; for the State of Louisiana by Jack P. F. Gremillion, Attorney General; for the State of Mississippi by Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General; for the State of Montana by Forrest H. Anderson, Attorney General; for the State of Nebraska by Clarence A. H. Meyer, Attorney General; for the State of Nevada by Charles E. Springer, Attorney General; for the State of New Mexico by Earl E. Hartley, Attorney General; for the State of North Dakota by Leslie R. Burgum, Attorney General; for the State of Oklahoma by Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General; and Ferrell Rogers; for the State of Utah by A. Pratt Kesler, Attorney General; for the State of Wyoming by W. M. Haight, Acting Attorney General; and for the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association by W. W. Heard.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question in this case is whether orders of the Kansas State Corporation Commission which require the appellant, an interstate pipeline company, to purchase gas ratably from all wells connecting with its pipeline system in each gas field within the State1 invalidly encroach upon the exclusive regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Power...
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