TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS P. L. C. v. HACKENSACK MEADOW. DEV. C.

No. 71-2064.

464 F.2d 1358 (1972)

TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Appellee, Public Service Electric & Gas Company and South Jersey Gas Company (Plaintiff Intervenors), v. HACKENSACK MEADOWLANDS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, a public corporate body of the State of New Jersey, and Clayson W. Foley, Appellants, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Clayton, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., for appellants.

George W. McHenry, Jr., Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

David B. Schackner, Fox, Schackner, Neagle & Mastrangelo, Newark, N. J., for appellee.

Before ADAMS, MAX ROSENN and HUNTER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we are faced with the question of the extent to which a state may legitimately interfere with interstate commerce through the exercise of its police powers. In apparent conflict are the State of New Jersey's plans for the controlled development of its "Meadowlands District" and the right of a federally certificated natural gas company to expand its storage facilities on land

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