UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT CO.
v.
CONTINENTAL OIL CO. ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 28, 1965.
Decided June 1, 1965.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William T. Coleman, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner in No. 644. With him on the briefs were Richardson Dilworth and Harold E. Kohn.
Solicitor General Cox argued the cause for petitioner in No. 693. With him on the briefs were Ralph S. Spritzer, Frank Goodman, Richard A. Solomon, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Robert L. Russell and Peter H. Schiff.
David T. Searls argued the cause for respondents in both cases. With him on the brief were Abe Fortas, Bruce R. Merrill, Lloyd F. Thanhouser, W. McIver Streetman, Stanley M. Morley, Donley C. Wertz, John T. Guyton, Robert E. May, John A. Ward III, Herf M. Weinert and W. D. Deakins, Jr.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Richard E. Tuttle and J. Calvin Simpson for the State of California et al. in No. 693, and by John Ormasa, L. T. Rice, Milford Springer, J. David Mann, Jr., and John E. Holtzinger, Jr., for Southern California Gas Co. et al. in both cases.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
In Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin,347 U.S. 672, the Court held that Federal Power Commission jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act, as amended, 52 Stat. 821, 15 U. S. C. § 717 et seq. (1964 ed.), extended to what are described colloquially and perhaps somewhat loosely as "wellhead" sales of natural gas by producers to interstate pipeline companies...
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