STATE OF LOUISIANA v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 72-1220.

476 F.2d 140 (1973)

STATE OF LOUISIANA et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold D. Berkeley, Washington, D. C., and Fred G. Benton, Sr., Baton Rouge, La., for petitioners.

Gordon Gooch, Gen. Counsel, George W. McHenry, Jr., First Asst. Sol., Leo E. Forquer, Sol., J. Richard Tiano, First Asst. Sol., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

William B. Cassin, Houston, Tex., for United Gas Pipe Line.

Leon M. Payne, Houston, Tex., and W. DeVier Pierson, Washington, D. C., for United Gas, Inc.

Thomas M. Knebel, Washington, D.C., for Willmut Gas & Oil Co.

J. Evans Attwell and Jack D. Head, Houston, Tex., for Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.

Peter H. Schiff, Gen. Counsel, P. S. C. for N. Y., Albany, N. Y., and Richard A. Solomon, Washington, D. C., for Public Service Commission for State of N. Y.

Barbara M. Gunther, Brooklyn, N. Y., for Brooklyn Union Gas Co.

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Washington, D. C., and John M. Kuykendall, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Miss. Valley Gas Co. and others.

Dan A. Bruce, Thomas G. Johnson and William G. Riddoch, Houston, Tex., for Shell Oil.

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.

Wm. W. Bedwell, John J. Mullally, Washington, D. C., and James H. Wuller, St. Louis, Mo., for Miss. River Transmission Corp.

Harry L. Albrecht, Birmingham, Ala., for Southern Natural Gas Co.

George M. Wear, Monroe, La., for Olinkraft, Inc.

Charles E. McGee, John T. Ketcham and Robert J. Haggerty, Washington, D. C., for Algonquin Gas Transmission Co.

Christopher T. Boland, Washington, D. C., and Robert O. Koch, Owensboro, Ky., for Texas Gas Transmission.

George W. Hugo, Houston, Tex., for Texas Gulf Sulphur.

John S. Schmid, New York City, for Boston Gas Co. and others.

Eaton A. Lang, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., and A. Edward Grashof, New York City, for Miss. Power Co.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and BELL and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

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...

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