SKELLY OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 9000, 9127, 9128, 9129, 9130.

401 F.2d 726 (1968)

SKELLY OIL COMPANY, Coastal States Gas Producing Company, George H. Coates, Glen A. Martin, and Prado Oil and Gas Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

October 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Evans Attwell, Houston, Tex., (W. H. Drushel, Jr., and Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., were with him on the brief) for Prado Oil and Gas Co., petitioner in No. 9130.

Sherman S. Poland, Washington, D. C. (Ross, Marsh & Foster, Washington, D. C., and Richard J. Dent, Tulsa, Okl., were with him on the brief) for petitioners in Nos. 9000, 9127, 9128 and 9129.

Joel Yohalem, Washington, D. C. (Richard A. Solomon, Gen. Counsel, and Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Sol., Federal Power Commission, were with him on the brief), for respondent.

Kent H. Brown, Albany, N. Y. (Morton L. Simons, Washington, D. C., William T. Coleman, Jr., and Robert W. Maris, Philadelphia, Pa., were with him on the brief), for intervenors Public Service Commission of the State of New York and The United Gas Improvement Co.

Robert E. Shaw and John E. Watson, filed a brief for amicus curiae Tenneco Oil Co.

Before LEWIS, BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

In Federal Power Commission v. Sunray DX Oil Co., 391 U.S. 9, 40-47, 88 S.Ct. 1526, 20 L.Ed.2d 388, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Power Commission had the power to order refunds of amounts collected under unconditioned temporary certificates issued pursuant to § 7 of the Natural Gas Act1 to the extent that the prices charged under those certificates exceeded the...

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