LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY and New Orleans Public Service Inc., Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 7, 1973.
February 7, 1973.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles King Mallory, Andrew P. Carter, W. C. Nelson, New Orleans, La., Nelson Jones, Houston, Tex., Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Washington, D. C., John M. Kuykendall, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for petitioners.
Gordon Gooch, Gen. Counsel, Ruben Lozner, Staff Counsel, Leo E. Forquer, Sol., J. Richard Tiano, George W. McHenry, Jr., First Asst. Sols., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., for respondent.
William B. Cassin, Houston, Tex., for United Gas Pipeline.
Leon M. Payne, Houston, Tex., W. DeVier Pierson, Washington, D. C., for United Gas, Inc.
William G. Riddoch, Dan A. Bruce and Thomas G. Johnson, Houston, Tex., for Shell Oil.
Clarence H. Ross and Raymond J. Petersen, Chicago, Ill., for Natural Gas Pipe Line of America.
Christopher T. Boland, Washington, D. C., and Robert O. Koch, Owensboro, Ky., for Texas Gas Transmission.
J. Evans Attwell and Jack D. Head, Houston, Tex., for Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.
Harry L. Albrecht, Birmingham, Ala., for Southern Natural Gas Co.
Thomas M. Knebel, Washington, D. C., for Willmut Gas & Oil Co.
Eaton A. Lang, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., and A. Edward Grashof, New York City, for Miss. Power Co.
George M. Wear, Monroe, La., for Olinkraft, Inc.
Wm. W. Bedwell, Washington, D. C., and James H. Wuller, St. Louis, Mo., for Miss. River Transmission Corp.
Peter H. Schiff, Gen. Counsel, P.S.C. for N. Y., Albany, N. Y., Richard A. Solomon, Washington, D. C., for Public Service Comm. for State of N. Y.
Arnold D. Berkeley, Washington, D. C., and Fred G. Benton, Sr., Baton Rouge, La., for State of Louisiana and others.
Barbara M. Gunther, Brooklyn, N. Y., for Brooklyn Union Gas Co.
Richard W. Duesenberg and Dwight W. Miller, St. Louis, Mo., for Monsanto Co.
John T. Miller, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Monsanto Co. and Texas Gulf Sulphur.
John J. Mullally, Washington, D. C., for Miss. River Transmission Corp.
George W. Hugo, Houston, Tex., for Texas Gulf Sulphur.
John S. Schmid, New York City, for Boston Gas Co., and others.
Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and BELL and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
PER CURIAM:
This case is one of a group arising from the adoption by the Federal Power Commission of "curtailment plans" filed by United Gas Pipe Line Company. These curtailment plans were the outgrowth of an order promulgated by the FPC and were aimed at serving the public interest by establishing a rational scheme of allocation of available natural gas in light of the current, somewhat critical, shortage of this much-used fuel. Due to this shortage, pipeline companies...
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