HERCULES INC. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 76-1593.

552 F.2d 74 (1977)

HERCULES INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, General Motors Corporation et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton L. Simons, Simons & Simons, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Drexel D. Journey, Gen. Counsel, Robert W. Perdue, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Allan Abbot Tuttle, Sol., John H. Burnes, Jr., Atty., Allan M. Garten, Atty., Washington, D.C., for respondent, Federal Power Commission.

Edward J. Grenier, Jr., Richard P. Noland, Ronald L. Winkler, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, D.C., Frazer F. Hilder, Gen. Counsel, Julius Jay Hollis, General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., for General Motors Corp.

Richard M. Merriman, J. Richard Tiano, Richard T. Witt, Reid & Priest, Washington, D.C., for intervenor The General Service Customer Group.

Before ALDISERT and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges, MEANOR, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This petition for review of an order issued by the Federal Power Commission (FPC) brings to this Circuit its first exposure to the meandering efforts of that agency to deal equitably with the allocation of natural gas among customers of regulated natural gas pipelines in a period of chronic, nationwide natural gas shortages.1 Although we have heretofore been spared the experience of...

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