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CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 23188, 23189, 23325, 23333, 23408, 23454, 23455, 21286, 21575, 21856.

378 F.2d 510 (1967)

CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, Austral Oil Company, Incorporated, Bright and Schiff, Blanco Oil Company and Killian and Hurd, Shell Oil Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, The Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Long Island Lighting Company, Philadelphia Gas Works, Division of the United Gas Improvement Company, Intervenors. The BROOKLYN UNION GAS COMPANY, Long Island Lighting Company, Philadelphia Gas Works, Division of the United Gas Improvement Company, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Texaco, Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation, Inc., Humble Oil Company, Inc., Austral Oil Company, Inc., McCurdy and McCurdy, Sun Oil Company, Pan American Petroleum Corp., Jonnell Gas, Inc., Bright and Schiff, Shell Oil Company, Intervenors. Margaret Hunt HILL, Trustee for Hassie Hunt Trust, H. L. Hunt, Hunt Oil Company, Lamar Hunt, Trustee for William Herbert Hunt Trust Estate, A. G. Hill, Trustee for Lamar Hunt Trust Estate, George W. Graham, Inc., Placid Oil Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. HUNT OIL COMPANY, Lamar Hunt, Trustee for William Herbert Hunt Trust Estate, A. G. Hill, Trustee for Lamar Hunt Trust Estate, Placid Oil Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 24, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 23188:

Thomas H. Burton, Joseph C. Johnson, Bruce R. Merrill, Houston, Tex., Francis H. Caskin, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

No. 23189:

W. H. Drushel, Jr., J. Evans Attwell, Houston, Tex., for petitioners.

No. 23333:

George B. Mickum, III, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

No. 23408:

Thomas G. Johnson, New York City, for petitioners.

No. 23454:

Edwin F. Russell, Harry G. Hill, Jr., Barbara M. Suchow, Brooklyn, N. Y., William T. Coleman, Jr., Robert W. Maris, Philadelphia, Pa., Edward M. Barrett, Bertram D. Moll, Mineola, N. Y., Morton L. Simons, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

No. 23455:

Kent H. Brown, Albany, N. Y., Barbara M. Suchow, Brooklyn, N. Y., for petitioners.

Nos. 21286 and 21575:

Richard F. Generelly, Washington, D. C., Thomas G. Crouch, Robert W. Henderson, Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., for petitioners.

No. 21856:

Paul W. Hicks, Thomas G. Crouch, Dallas, Tex., for petitioners.

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Sol., FPC, Richard A. Solomon, Gen. Counsel, FPC, Paul A. Sweeney, Atty., for FPC in Nos. 21286, 21575 and 21856.

Robert A. Jablon, Atty., for FPC in Nos. 23188, 23189, 23325, 23333, 23408, 23454 and 23455.

Nos. 23188, 23189, 23333, and 23408:

Edwin F. Russell, Harry G. Hill, Jr., Barbara M. Suchow, Brooklyn, N. Y., William T. Coleman, Jr., Robert W. Maris, Philadelphia, Pa., Edward M. Barrett, Bertram D. Moll, Mineola, N. Y., Morton L. Simons, Washington, D. C., Martin N. Erck, Houston, Tex., for intervenors.

Nos. 23454 and 23455:

W. H. Drushel, Jr., J. Evans Attwell, Houston, Tex., Robert B. Payne, Thomas G. Crouch, Dallas, Tex., Richard F. Generelly, Robert E. May, Washington, D. C., Phillip D. Endom, Philadelphia, Pa., Philip R. Ehrenkranz, Carroll L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., J. P. Hammond, Clifford O. Stone, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., Dean J. Capp, Houston, Tex., Warren M. Sparks, Donald R. Arnett, Tulsa, Okl., Carl Illig, Houston, Tex., Jesse H. Foster, Houston, Tex., James K. Schooler, Houston, Tex., William R. Slye, Houston, Tex., Leo J. Hoffman, Dallas, Tex., for intervenors.

Oliver Stone, New York City, for intervenor only in No. 23454.

Thomas G. Johnson, New York City, for intervenor only in No. 23454.

Before BROWN, BELL and DYER, Circuit Judges.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

Three groups of cases raise in a variety of ways the validity of the Federal Power Commission's "in-line" price pronouncement, its statement of general policy, moratorium ceilings, and refund requirements.

In the first group the producer petitioners1 pursuant to § 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act,2 challenge an order of the FPC of September 30, 1965, in a consolidated proceeding...

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