HUNT OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 27457.

424 F.2d 982 (1970)

HUNT OIL COMPANY et al., Marathon Oil Company, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Texaco, Inc. and Sun Oil Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald K. Young, Robert W. Henderson, Dallas, Tex., for Hunt Oil Co., and others.

Tom Burton, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil.

Edwin S. Nail, Tulsa, Okl., Neal Powers, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Midhurst Oil.

Edwin S. Nail, Tulsa, Okl., for Amerada Petroleum Corp.

Oliver L. Stone, Thomas G. Johnson, New York City, for Shell Oil Co.

James D. Annett, William R. Slye, Robert E. Newey, Houston, Tex., for Texaco, Inc.

Jack Fariss, Morton Taylor, Findlay, Ohio, for Marathon Oil Co.

Louis Flax, Stanley M. Morley, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

Richard A. Solomon, Gen. Counsel, F. P. C., Peter H. Schiff, Solicitor, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Sheldon Rosenthal, Princ. Counsel, Public Util. Comm. of Cal., San Francisco, Cal., for the People of the State of Cal. and the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Cal.

F. T. Searls, Malcolm H. Furbush, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas & Elec. Co.

John Ormasa, Harvey L. Goth, William H. Owens, Los Angeles, Cal., J. Calvin Simpson, San Francisco, Cal., for Pac. Lighting Serv., Sou. Cal. Gas Co. and Sou. Cts. Gas Co.

Before THORNBERRY, DYER and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This is a proceeding to review orders of the Federal Power Commission requiring petitioners, who are independent producers of natural gas, to refund moneys collected in excess of price ceilings subsequently established by the Commission. The rates that the Commission seeks to enforce have been reviewed and approved by the United States Supreme Court. Permian Basin Area Rate Cases, 1968, 390 U.S. 747, 88 S...

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