LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO. v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY

No. 71-2550.

456 F.2d 326 (1972)

LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees, Federal Power Commission, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Certiorari Granted March 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Leigh, Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe, La., Andrew P. Carter, Eugene G. Taggart, C. King Mallory, Monroe & Lehmann, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

William C. Harvin, William R. Choate, Perry Barber, Houston, Tex., John T. Guyton, W. O. Crain, Jr., Shreveport, La., Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., and Hargrove, Guyton, Van Hook & Ramey, Shreveport, La., for defendants-appellees United Gas and others.

Donald E. Walter, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Gordon Gooch, Gen. Counsel, Leo Forquer, Sol., J. Richard Tiano, First Asst. Sol., George P. Lewnes, Asst. Gen. Counsel, George W. McHenry, Jr., Atty., F.P.C., Washington, D. C., for intervenor F.P.C.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Granted March 6, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 1198.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The present nationwide shortage of natural gas generated this controversy.1 First, we must make a construction of the Natural Gas Act2 which will properly balance that Act's grant of jurisdictional power to the Federal Power Commission (FPC) over the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce with the equally explicit...

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