PUBLIC SERVICE COMM'N v. MID-LOUISIANA GAS CO.

No. 81-1889.

463 U.S. 319 (1983)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. MID-LOUISIANA GAS CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 28, 1983


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome M. Feit argued the cause for petitioners in all cases. With him on the briefs for petitioner in No. 82-19 were Solicitor General Lee, Elliott Schulder, and Charles A. Moore. David E. Blabey, Richard A. Solomon, and David D'Alessandro filed briefs for petitioner in No. 81-1889. Arnold D. Berkeley and Richard I. Chaifetz filed briefs for petitioner in No. 81-1958. Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of Michigan, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Arthur E. D'Hondt and R. Philip Brown, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief for petitioner in No. 81-2042.

James D. McKinney argued the cause for respondents in all cases. With him on the brief for respondents Mid-Louisiana Gas Co. et al. were George W. McHenry, Jr., John H. Burnes, Jr., Alan C. Wolf, C. Frank Reifsnyder, Richard C. Green, Donald J. MacIver, Jr., Richard Owen Baish, Scott D. Fobes, William M. Lange, Augustine A. Mazzei, Jr., Morris Kennedy, William R. Mapes, Jr., and Larry D. Hall. William W. Brackett, Daniel F. Collins, Terry O. Vogel, and Gary L. Cowan filed a brief for respondent Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Karol Lyn Newman, David E. Weatherwax, and Philip L. Jones filed a brief for respondent Consolidated Gas Supply Corp.

Richard H. Silverman and Morton L. Simons filed a brief for the Public Power Group as amicus curiae.


JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By enacting the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA), 92 Stat. 3350, 15 U. S. C. § 3301 et seq. (1976 ed., Supp. V), Congress comprehensively and dramatically changed the method of pricing natural gas produced in the United States. In Title I of that Act, Congress defined eight categories of natural gas production, specified the maximum lawful price that may...

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